Virginia Tech Mining and Minerals Engineering Academic Advisor Michelle Crotto recently took first-year general engineering students to the Jack’s Mountain Quarry in Glade Hill, Va., where Hokie mining alumni working for Rockydale Quarries Corp., introduced them to surface mining and blast engineering. Watch: https://vtx.vt.edu/videos/k/2022/10/1_zrwbhgb6.html
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Caterpillar, Luck Stone to Scale Autonomous Hauling Solutions to the Aggregates Industry
Caterpillar Inc. announced a collaboration with Luck Stone, the nation’s largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand and gravel, to deploy Caterpillar’s autonomous solution to Luck Stone’s Bull Run Plant in Chantilly, Va. This will be Caterpillar’s first autonomous deployment in the aggregates industry and will expand the company’s autonomous truck fleet to include the 100-ton-class (90-tonne-class) Cat…
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