Russian quarries developers to repair Leningrad roads?

Authorities of the Leningrad region of Russia have offered several variants of compensating for road damage that appears due to goods being transported to the non-metallic quarries developers. The first variant is to lease roads for the nominal fee, providing that developers will repair and maintain them at their own expense. The second variant is the payment of a certain sum per cubic metre of shipped material. The third variant is establishing a regional operator that will collect a fixed charge depend

October 25, 2013 Read time: 1 min

Authorities of the Leningrad region of Russia have offered several variants of compensating for road damage that appears due to goods being transported to the non-metallic quarries developers.

The first variant is to lease roads for the nominal fee, providing that developers will repair and maintain them at their own expense. The second variant is the payment of a certain sum per cubic metre of shipped material. The third variant is establishing a regional operator that will collect a fixed charge depending on the distance from trucks, and installing GLONASS equipment in trucks, which, according to the authorities, is the most preferred.

Treading carefully with quarry tyres

Getting the most from tyres is a critical exercise and one that can either save money or cost dearly. Dan Gilkes reports Tyres are without doubt one of the most expensive wear parts of any wheeled machine. Along with fuel and operators, they make up a considerable percentage of the ownership and operating cost of any truck or loader.
When you get into quarry-sized tyres the costs just keep on rising.

January 21, 2014

Quarries have few choices for hauling, but plenty of solutions

When it comes to hauling material in a quarry, be that uncrushed stone, crushed material or overburden, quarry operators don’t have that many choices.
Smaller sites or those with tough weather and ground conditions will tend towards articulated dump trucks (ADT), while those working with higher payloads, longer hauls and well maintained haul roads will prefer a rigid dump truck (RDT) fleet, writes Dan Gilkes.
The third option of course is to crush the material in-pit with mobile crushers and use conveyors