Oct. 8, 2020 – There may have been a debate in Salt Lake City last night, but of equal interest is the debate in this article from the Salt Lake Tribune, which chronicles the issues of a commercial cherry orchard trying to co-exist with nearby quarry operations. While on the surface the article may be about land-use issues facing agriculture and mining, these two…
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a settlement with Northern Alaska Contractors LLC (NAC) for violations of Alaska’s Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Multi-Sector General Permit requirements that protect against pollution caused by stormwater runoff at the Ugadaga Quarry in Unalaska, Alaska.
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The organizers of Hillhead announced that trade shows have been given the green light to resume in the United Kingdom. As a member of the Association of Event Organizers, the Hillhead 2021 team has already begun planning its 2021 event to fulfill the “All Secure Standard.”
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Wet processing manufacturer CDE plans to host a virtual trade event for the construction-materials wet processing industry across the globe. Continuing its Engineering Insights education series, the major two-day virtual event will take place on Oct. 14-15. Across the two days, CDE experts, together with a host of guests and industry figures, will facilitate a series of dynamic, educational, and informative presentations…
Read MoreThe Sunrock Group, a privately held construction materials supplier headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., has acquired an existing quarry with 1,400 acres of high-quality aggregate reserves from Brazil-based Votorantim Cimentos’ North American business unit Canada Building Materials/St. Mary’s Cement.
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O&G Industries, Connecticut’s largest privately held construction company, recently went live with a 1.3-megawatt (MW) solar array at its quarry on Roxbury Road in Southbury, Conn.
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Hamm Companies Inc. was recently awarded the 2019 Governor’s Mined Land Reclamation Award by the Kansas Department of Transportation at the Kansas Aggregate Producers Association convention.
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Dec. 20, 2019 – Did it or didn’t it? A small tremor on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada, appears to be the result of a quarry blast, according to Blackburn News. On Dec. 13, a 2.1 magnitude tremor with an epicentre 14 km north of Wiarton, Ontario, registered on the national seismic network, the article stated. Research Scientist Stephen Crane with Natural Resources Canada said a…
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Dec. 17, 2019 – The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has expanded its network of air-monitoring stations by introducing two new monitoring stations in Central Texas. One location is in Comal County and the other in Bexar County. Both monitors are now operational, according to Corridor News. The stations take measurements of particulate matter in the air, commonly notated as PM2.5…
Read MoreJamaica World, an industrial development start-up, has partnered with EPSA, a global contract mining company out of Spain, for the development of a limestone-processing operation near Rio Bueno, according to The Gleaner.
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