July 2008
What used to take hours - like adjusting the setting of a particular crusher - is now completed in minutes, sometimes seconds, at Lafarge's Tongaat Quarry in KwaZulu-Natal. Its new technology from Sandvik has turned quarrying into a science. Full story on page 4.
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Talvivaara - a Nordic project of world class proportions
Modern Quarrying recently visited the Talvivaara mine in Eastern Finland, which is set to produce its first nickel in October using bioheapleaching as the core technology to extract metals from ore. The company has the potential to provide about 2,3% of the world's current annual production of nickel by 2010, placing it comfortably into the top 20 category of global nickel producers
Family-owned Cylde Brickworks - grows from strength to strength
Modern Quarrying recently had the pleasure of interviewing the Balambanos brothers and was taken on a tour of the impressive brick making facilities at Clyde Brickworks. The company has made a considerable investment over the past few years in terms of its drying plant and related equipment
Crushing and screening in Malaysia - a veteran's perspective
Quarryman Adelchi Balsarin talks candidly about the many and somewhat frustrating challenges he has experienced in the crushing industry in Malaysia
Patented DX2 filter proves its worth in comprehensive field trials
Donaldson Filtration Systems' revolutionary new DX2 filter technology has been undergoing extensive product trials at ArcelorMittal since December last year. Modern Quarrying reports back exclusively on these results
The critical importance of transfer points - a make or break factor
M&J Engineering's Weba Chute innovator Werner Baller, tells Modern Quarrying about his dilemma in getting people to see transfer points as a critical element in a plant's operation
Custom Engineering of mobile air handling systems
Modern Quarrying speaks to Booyco Engineering's Jeremy Pougnet about efficient cooling, heating, ventilation, cab pressurisation and filtration systems for mobile applications in extreme environmental and ambient conditions
Institute of Quarrying conference feedback - April
A look-back at the highlights of this very successful conference and exhibition, and notification of the September conference, which will be held in Stellenbosch
