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Old Mining Equipment Show set for September
The Ohio Valley Chapter of the Historical Construction Equipment Association will have its Seventh Annual Old Construction & Surface Mining Equipment Show Sept. 11 and 12 at the Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park grounds in New Athens, Ohio...
JCB Makes Pakistan Donation
JCB Chairman Sir Anthony Bamford pledged assistance worth $250,000 to help in the reconstruction effort in the wake of the devastating floods in Pakistan...
Construction Job Loss Eases
Construction job gains were more widespread across the country and job losses were generally less severe in July than in June, the Associated General Contractors of America reported in an analysis of state employment data released by the Labor Department...
Report: Rural Highways Lack Funding
According to a new report, "Connecting Rural and Urban America," more investment is needed in America's rural transportation system to keep agriculture, new energy products, and freight moving...
MSHA Warns Against Advance Inspection Notification
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a new Program Information Bulletin pertaining to the prohibition of advance notification of federal mine inspectors on mine property...
July New-Home Sales Fall, Starts Up
Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 12.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000 units in July, according to data released by the U.S. Commerce Department...
JCB Backhoe Sets Record, Raises Money
JCB's 3CX Backhoe Loader has earned a world record by completing a 26-day, 3,185-mile road trip across America...
Asian Construction Tradeshows Growing
Exhibit space for next year's construction equipment show BC India is sold out despite an expanded exhibition area. The International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors’ Association is the latest organization to lend its support of the show...
Feds Pledge $25 Million to Rebuild Gulf Coast
The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide more than $25 million for newly approved Gulf Coast rebuilding projects to assist communities as they continue to recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...
NSSGA Offers Economic Impact Tool
The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association has developed an electronic Economic Impact Sustainability Tool to estimate an individual operation's contribution to the local community...
Quarries Still High on Opposition List
Data from The Saint Consulting Group shows that the economic recession has made Americans more willing to support new commercial projects in their community...
GOP Senators have Higher Digital IQ than Dems
George Washington University School of Business Dean Doug Guthrie, and NYU Stern Professor of Marketing Scott Galloway, evaluated and ranked 100 U.S. senators’ digital IQ...
Stamp Sand to go into Roof Shingles
An entrepreneur from Traverse Bay, Mich., and Michigan Technological University researchers are collaborating on a project to use Upper Michigan’s stamp sand for roofing shingles...
ASTM Concrete Committee Developing Bleed-Stability Standard
ASTM Concrete Committee Developing Bleed-Stability Standard ASTM International Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates is currently developing a proposed standard that addresses bleed stability...
MSHA Pilot Program to Ease Case Backlog
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration will launch a 90-day pilot program to address the backlog of contested citations and the agency’s conferencing procedures...
Holcim Shows First-Half Improvements
After a first quarter beset by heavy winter snowfall in the northern hemisphere, the overall economic picture improved slightly...
Caterpillar to Help Clean Up Port-au-Prince
More than 150,000 people in Haiti's most impoverished slum will benefit from a massive drainage canal clean-up project funded by a donation from the Caterpillar Foundation...
Transportation Research and Education to get $13.8M
The Department of Transportation is giving more than $13.8 million in grants to eight University Transportation Centers to advance research and education programs that address critical transportation challenges. These centers conduct research that directly supports DOT priorities...
USGS Reports Q2 Production
In the second quarter of 2010, increases in domestic production for cement, construction sand and gravel, and crushed stone were large compared with those of the first quarter of 2010, but largely seasonal...
Construction Machinery Exports up 15%
Exports of U.S.-made construction equipment increased in the second quarter of 2010, and total construction machinery exports at midyear were $7.4 billion, a 15% gain overall compared to the first six months of 2009, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers...
MSHA Fines Big Laurel Mining more than $542,000
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration levied $542,400 in proposed penalties against Big Laurel Mining Corp....
C&D World Co-Locating at ConExpo-Con/Agg
The 2011 edition of C&D World, the Annual Meeting of the Construction Materials Recycling Association, will be held on March 23, 2011, at the Paris Resort and Casino in Las Vegas...
Lags in Highway Spending Drop Cement Forecast
Due to delays in an extension of a federal highway bill, cement consumption will not begin a significant rebound until 2013, according to the most recent economic forecast from the Portland Cement Association...
Rock Mining the Oldest Profession
For those having a difficult time making the case with political and community leaders that aggregate mining and processing aids the economy, here's another tact—it maybe the oldest profession and one that helped early humans prosper...
Va. Aggregate Operations Awarded
The Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance and the Virginia Department of Mines handed out awards to that state's top performing mines for safety, reclaimation and community relations...
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