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A Cemex quarry in the town of Pickering, County North Yorkshire, England, has staved off the threat of mothballing following planning permission approval. This follows an approach from York Potash to supply aggregates for the construction of its mine site. As part of its commitment to use local suppliers, York Potash has indicated that Newbridge Quarry, owned by Cemex UK, would be a preferred supplier due to its proximity to the mine and could provide aggregates for the three-year construction phase of the

Welsh quarry operator and civil engineering contractor GD Harries & Sons is expanding its business. The company has added four machines from local Case Construction Equipment dealer Riverlea. Based in Narberth, west Wales, GD Harries & Sons has taken delivery of two Case CX350C crawler excavators; a 1021F wheeled loader and an 821F for use in its seven quarry sites throughout the region. In the past 18 months GD Harries & Sons has acquired four granite and two limestone quarries, and it also runs three con

NCC Roads’ Marjamäki aggregate production site located in Lempäälä, Finland, saw a high-powered rock processing operation when two companies, JJ Kaivin ja Kallio and Veljekset Mäkitalo, established their crushing operations side-by-side. The two companies operate comparable Sandvik plant, with similar first two stages of the process, although with differing production methods, and have both benefitted from proactive maintenance thereby boosting the sites total production.

Crushing and screening plant from Atlas Copco Powercrusher is playing a big part in a major Italian highway project. The Quadrilatero Project in the Marche Umbria regions includes the completion and upgrading of two main A road arteries: the Foligno-Civitanova Marche Strada statale SS77 and Perugia-Ancona SS76 and SS318 and the Pedemontana Fabriano-Muccia/Sfercia road.

About 25km north of the city of Aberdeen on Scotland’s east coast is the town of Ellon. Driving through the city on the way to James Jamieson’s Ardlethen Quarry just outside Ellon, it is not difficult to see how it got its nickname, writes Patrick Smith. Best known as the Granite City, it is also called the Grey City after the material that was quarried nearby, and of which much of it is built.