quarrying operation Articles
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Wentvalley Aggregates gain the EDGE with 7 stacking conveyors
EDGE Innovate & Max Innovate Supply 7 Stacking Conveyors to Wentvalley Aggregates. Wentvalley Aggregates are a very busy operation based just south of Pontefract. This large limestone quarry operates a very effective full crushing train to supply the aggregate demands of the area, which includes a variety of different end product sizes. Over the past few years the company has invested ...
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Using GPR to Assist in Quarry Expansion - Case Study
Customer’s task A company producing ballast material from quarry operations wants to expand the size of their hard rock quarry by approx. 6-hectares to meet increasing demand. To receive approval from the administrative board of the local county, they are required to produce an environmental impact statement, which includes an assessment of moraine cover. The client sought help from GPR to ...
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Project - Environmental Assessment of the West Detour Mine Expansion
Client: Cathryn Moffett, Director, Environment & Sustainability, Detour Gold Corporation 199 Bay Street, Suite 4100 Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1E2 (416)304-0800 cmoffett@detourgold.com Key Personnel: D. Kassenaar, E.J. Wexler Tier 2 Water Budget analysis completed under the Clean Water Act identified Middle Spencer Creek for further analysis at the Tier 3 Risk Assessment level. Earthfx was hired ...
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Project - Tier 3 Water Budget and Local Area Risk Assessment for the Greensville Groundwater Municipal System
Client: Halton-Hamilton Source Protection Region, 4052 Milburough Line, RR#2, Campbellville, Ontario. Diane L. Bloomfield, M.Sc., P.Geo. (905.854.9229 ext. 223) Key Personnel: D. Kassenaar, E.J. Wexler, P. Thompson, M. Takeda, J. Ford Tier 2 Water Budget analysis completed under the Clean Water Act identified Middle Spencer Creek for further analysis at the Tier 3 Risk Assessment level. Earthfx ...
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Project - Milton Tier 3 Water Budget and Water Quantity Risk Assessment, Milton, Ontario
Client: Halton-Hamilton Source Protection Region, 4052 Milburough Line, RR#2, Campbellville, Ontario. Diane L. Bloomfield, M.Sc., P.Geo. (905.854.9229 ext. 223) Key Personnel: E.J. Wexler, D. Kassenaar The Region of Halton operates 3 municipal wellfields for the Town of Milton- the fastest growing community in Canada. The wells lie within a re-entrant (valley) cut into the Niagara Escarpment. ...
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Monitoring particulate matters on a quarry - Case Study
Quarrying operations generate dust in the workplace at every stage (scraping, extraction, treatment, maintenance, and so on). In order to protect Environment, Health and Safety on site, EUROVIA, (a subsidiary of VINCI group) specialized in highway and railway infrastructures, wanted to collect data for dust control. According to its measurement needs, ECOMESURE proposed to EUROVIA, a ...
By Ecomesure
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Quarry dewatering compliance - Case Study
Louis W. Bray Construction installed a Greyline Area-Velocity Flow Meter in 2009 to meet Ministry of Environment regulations. Their permit stipulated effluent limits plus monitoring, sampling and flow measurement of wastewater discharged from the site to the South Raisin river. The Ontario Water Resources Act requires flow monitoring for any quarry dewatering greater than 50,000 liters per day. ...
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Quarry Dewatering Compliance - Case Study
Louis W. Bray Construction installed a Greyline Area-Velocity Flow Meter in 2009 to meet Ministry of Environment regulations. Their permit stipulated effluent limits plus monitoring, sampling and flow measurement of wastewater discharged from the site to the South Raisin river. The Ontario Water Resources Act requires flow monitoring for any quarry dewatering greater than 50,000 liters per day. ...
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Managing dust risks at quarries
In the following article, Josh Thomas from instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology, discusses the risks associated with dust at quarries, and highlights the vital role of monitoring. Background Almost all quarrying operations have the potential to create dust. Control measures should therefore be established to prevent the generation of levels that cause harm. These measures should be ...
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MB Crusher, A precious resource for all kinds of quarry
Nothing lasts forever, and even in quarries, the available resources are limited and destined to run out. For this reason, it is always necessary to look for new ways to profitably re-use the extracted material, even that which, until recently, was considered as waste. With MB Crusher solutions, all materials can become sources of immediate income. In order to improve synergy and compatibility ...
By MB Crusher
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Passive Seismic Surveying
A new and cost-effective site-assessment tool for the quarrying industry Good quarry design and efficient operation depend upon a ground model that reliably defines the quality, volume and spatial distribution of resource and waste. Most ground models are based on boreholes, sometimes with additional 2D or 3D control provided by ‘traditional’ geophysical surveys such as microgravity, ...
By MoHo s.r.l.
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Optimising the Configuration of the Crushing Plant In Indonesia
The configuration of your production units within a Crushing Plant in Indonesia plays a crucial role in the performance from the final product. This post will discuss the way to optimise the procedure to boost the entire performance from the crushing plant. This article will also consider the basic equipment required in a Crushing Plant and the typical configuration of this equipment. This post ...
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Case study - Grundon - Kennetholme Quarry
The prime objective of the new wash plant is to process ‘as-dug' material in a replacement for the existing Grundon operation at the nearby Padworth Quarry where mineral processing will soon cease. Kennetholme has over 10 years of reserves of a flint based sand and gravel. The new plant site was originally an old paper mill works. Some of the old infrastructure has proved useful for the ...
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The Post-Consumer Glass Recycling System
Post-consumer-glass containers are made from naturally occurring sand, soda ash and limestone ingredients. It’s the packaging material of choice for a majority of consumers, especially those concerned about their health and the environment. Glass is superior for preserving a product’s taste or flavour and maintaining the integrity or healthiness of foods and beverages. It is the ...
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Oil Analysis Helps Keep the Trains Running - Case study
Based in Tullow, Ireland, T.E. Laboratories ("the Laboratories"), provides oil, fuel and environmental analysis services for a variety of customers, including Irish Rail, Ireland's national railway system. It regularly uses equipment from Spectro, Inc., including the Spectroil Q100 spectrometer. When the analysis of oil samples from a main locomotive showed a large amount of severe wear ...
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Maximum Efficiency for...Saving Water
In an attempt to protect our ecological surroundings and minimize the negative effects of industrial processes, it is necessary to purify and recover the waters used during washing operations of sand washing, quarrying and recycling operations. The first step is to recover 100% of the waters used and to eliminate the concentration of sludge, thus Baioni's solutions aim at offering a full sludge ...
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MB Crusher at Marmomac 2017
The company from Vicenza will be exhibiting its quarry line at the Fair from 27 to 30 September This line has been conceived and designed for quarry work, in order to guarantee high performance and low consumption as well as very resistant, hard-wearing materials. The line in question is the special MB Crusher range especially designed for quarry work, which will be on display this year with its ...
By MB Crusher
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Italian Crush
MB Crusher brings bucketloads of cost- effective solutions to the mobile crushing and screening sector with its unique and innovative crushing buckets and screeners It’s a sizzling 50 degrees Celsius in the small Saudi village of Al Kharj. At a bare and dusty quarry in this area south of the capital Riyadh, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the harsh and baking landscape as the surface ...
By MB Crusher
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Pump it up
Aligning itself with a major equipment supplier and dealer helps the company access the tools and expertise it needs without risking too much capital. Aquatech is the distributor for Godwin Pumps of America in Ontario, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Eastern Labrador, all resource-rich territories. A recent purchase of Godwin by ITT Corporation has expanded the lineup of mine sector pumps. The company ...
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