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 Awarded Kansas Reclamation Award
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.
Read MoreDid Quarry Blast Cause an Earthquake?
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…
Read MoreTexas Trying to Clear the Air
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 MoreNew Quarry Proposed for Jamaica
Jamaica 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.
Read MoreChaney Golf Tournament Held at Reclaimed Quarry Site
Maryland-based construction-materials producer Chaney Enterprises raised more than $98,000 for the American Cancer Society, and substance abuse and cancer research at its 20th Annual Babe & Dick Chaney Memorial Golf Tournament.
Read MoreGraniterock Fixes Its Own Road
June 4, 2019 – Exiting Graniterock’s A.R. Wilson Quarry won’t be such a bumpy ride now that the company fixed its own road. The road leading out of the quarry, with more than a few potholes, underwent a rehabilitation project coordinated by several Graniterock teams in addition to the quarry: CIR, RTS, Construction Division and Road Materials. The One Company project…
Read MoreRain for Rent Pumps Save Quarry
A low-pressure weather system over the southeastern Appalachian Mountains brought heavy, intense rains that caused a creek to break through a berm and flood a quarry that provided aggregates essential to the construction industry. An estimated six billion gal. of water shut down the quarry’s crusher and conveyor.
Read MorePeckham Holds Safety Days Event
Peckham Industries held its Safety Days on March 12-14, at its Pleasant Valley Quarry, Pleasant Valley, N.Y.
Read MoreLehigh Hanson’s Cadomin Plant Receives Quarry Life Award
In more than 1,000 quarries and pits worldwide, HeidelbergCement is committed to managing biodiversity during and after extraction by promoting a high diversity of local flora and fauna.
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