Quarry Products

CEMEX has confirmed that the sale of its award-winning Attenborough Nature Reserve to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has been finalised.

The British Aggregates Association (BAA) has awarded its Quarry of the Year 2020 prize to the Gill Mill Quarry operated by Smith & Sons (Bletchington) at Ducklington in West Oxfordshire.

The Global Cement and Concrete Association’s (GCCA) second annual 'Concrete in Life' photography competition has finished with a record number of entries for 2020.

Building materials provider Aggregate Industries has operated a successful project to support and rehome two rare species of bat at one of its UK quarry sites.

International minerals and mining group LKAB has appointed Darren Wilson as CEO of industrial minerals, while Rowan Elliott has been named as managing director of its UK business LKAB Minerals.

South Africa's mines and quarries are set to experience a boom period in the New Year when a host of building and construction projects which have been delayed due to COVID-19 get underway.

Mineral extractives professionals in the Middle East are the first cohort of students to complete the Level 3 Certificate in Leadership and Management (ILM) from the Institute of Quarrying (IQ).

With ten years remaining to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) is highlighting the crucial role that concrete is playing, and the action the sector is taking towards achieving the 17 global development targets.

Lorban TP deals with the extraction and loading of limestone at the Carrières du Bassin de la Sambre (C.B.S.) in Saint-Remy-du-Nord, northern France. These quarries produce 600,000 tonnes of limestone granulate annually for industry, construction and civil engineering.