Pit & Quarry articles from August 2004

Pit & Quarry archives from August 2004

Oil skimmer.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Abanaki's Oil Skimmer Division offers the Light Fuel Oil (LFO) Polymer "Fuzzy" Belt. The improved Fuzzy material now stands up to extremely harsh chemicals and solvents. More embedded metal filaments have been added to the belt to further...

Conveyor rollers.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Enduride)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Enduride conveyor rollers are designed around the specific parameters of each conveyor installation to prevent failure and downtime owing to abrasion, corrosion, build-up, bearing failure, roller jam, vibration, belt wear, excessive drag and...

Blasting book.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The second edition of the Federal Highway Administration book, "Rock Blasting and Overbreak Control," is now available. This book is a guide to efficient blast design and vibration control for heavy construction, mining and quarrying projects....

Impactor plant.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Terex Pegson)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The Terex Pegson 1412 track-mounted Trakpactor plant features a Hazemag horizontal AP-PH 1214/Q primary impact crusher with hydraulic controls for more uniform products, plus the latest PLC CAN BUS control system to automatically regulate the...

Maintainer.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Huber Construction Equipment)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The compact, versatile Huber M-850-C Maintainer provides efficiency in a wide variety of grading jobs from base to finish work, as well as spreading asphalt, stone, fill dirt and other materials. It performs up to 75 percent of jobs normally...

Crushing plant.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The Lippmann 5165LP is a reliable, cost-effective portable impact crushing plant designed for primary recycling of concrete or asphalt. The 5165LP can also be used for primary crushing of medium aggregate and for sand and gravel applications....

Truck-scale terminal.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Mettler Toledo's IND310drive Graphic Terminal offers functionality not commonly found in embedded truck-scale terminals, such as flexible database tables, quick ID indexes, configurable soft keys, and condition-based monitoring. The terminal...

Control valve.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The 36-in. Series 5400 control valve from Red Valve features a full-port opening and no cavities to trap solids or debris. The elastomer sleeve isolates the valve body from the process and is abrasion-resistant as well as easy and inexpensive...

Portable crushing plant.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Screen Machine)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The Screen Machine's Crushing Division offers a tracked portable crushing plant, the 4043T Impact, which features standard Caterpillar tracks with high-speed travel; a Caterpillar C-9 300-hp engine; 40-in. x 43-in. horizontal-impact crusher;...

Pulleys.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Continental Conveyor offers three levels of pulley technology, the CEMA-class heavy-duty pulley line for typical applications, the tougher aggregate-duty pulley line for more intensive applications, and the engineered-class pulley line for the...

Belt fasteners.(Equipment showcase: your productivity marketplace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Two more sizes of Flexco bolt solid plate conveyor-belt fasteners now include a patent-pending, rubber-topped version that adds longer life, faster installation and reduced noise to this heavy-duty belt splicing method. Like the mid-sized 190VP...

Vibration monitor.(Product Highlight)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Instantel Inc.'s latest addition to its Series III line is the Minimate Blaster vibration and overpressure monitor. The company says the monitor is quick and easy to setup and operate, because it contains a simple set of functions that are...

From the road.(Out in front: critical trends and topics from Pit & Quarry)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Two custom-designed Superior Industries conveyor systems are used for the transfer of dredged materials to and from barges used on the Florida coast's Peanut Island Environmental Restoration Project. California-based civil and marine...

Essential economics.(Out in front: critical trends and topics from Pit & Quarry)(Construction contracts)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Monthly Construction Contract Value Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rates, in Millions May 2004 Apr. 2004 % Change Nonresidential Building $164,746 $148,085 +11 Residential Building ...

Stock watch.(Out in front: critical trends and topics From Pit & Quarry)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
August 1, 2004... STOCK WATCH (AT PRESS TIME) THIS MONTH LAST MONTH Cemex SA f 28.20 29.65 Eagle Materials f 65.99 70.72 Florida Rock Industries d 43.27 41.08...

Lafarge North America.(Top News)(Thibodaux Lumber and Concrete)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... * Lafarge North America acquires the ready mix assets of Thibodaux Lumber and Concrete.

Hanson PLC.(Top News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... * Hanson PLC announces interim results, noting a 53.8 percent increase in operating profit for its Hanson Aggregates North America Division.

Caterpillar.(Top News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... * Caterpillar says its off-road engines are compliant with Tier 3 standards, making the company the first out of the blocks with a line of EPA-certified engines.

House of Representatives.(Top News)
August 1, 2004... * Moments before recessing, the House of Representatives approves legislation extending funding for federal highway programs through September 24, and funding for federal transit, highway safety and motor carrier safety programs through...

Survey says.(Out in front: critical trends and topics from Pit & Quarry)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
August 1, 2004... LAST MONTH'S QUESTION What is the primary reason you attend trade shows like MINExpo and ConExpo-Con/Agg? Evaluate new equipment 44% Network with the pros 37% Educational seminars 7% I don't attend them 7%...

Remembering Jim.(Mark My Words)(Jim Lincoln)(Obituary)
August 1, 2004... Everyone, it seems, knew Jim Lincoln, marketing manager for Kolberg-Pioneer, who died on July 19, after a two-year battle with brain lymphoma (Please see our tribute on page 54 of this issue). It was hard not to know Jim. He was friendly,...

Scaling device.(Brand new: just released to the market)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Breaker Technology Inc.'s VP245 and VP285 vibratory pick scaling devices feature a hybrid hydraulic breaker integrated within a scaling pick. Their streamlined design provides excellent visibility to the tool in all scaling modes, says the...

Hydraulic hammer.(Brand new: just released to the market)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Caterpillar's H160D s hydraulic hammer incorporates many enhanced components and a variety of invaluable features that are designed to improve breaking productivity and minimize downtime. It is ideally matched to Cat 330C and 345B II hydraulic...

Jaw crusher.(Brand new: just released to the market)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Lippmann Milwaukee's massive Model 5062 jaw crusher is designed for heavy-duty, high-volume aggregate crushing applications. It features an oversized, heat-treated, eccentric shaft forged of special alloy to handle overloads and hard material;...

National acquires Great Lakes Calcium plant.(Stockpile: the latest industry news)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The National Lime & Stone Company has acquired the Great Lakes Calcium plant in Woodville, Ohio, it was announced by National Lime & Stone President Ronald Kruse. Great Lakes Calcium is a producer of materials that both companies supply to the...

Rinker Materials makes Florida acquisitions.(Stockpile: the latest industry news)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Rinker Materials Corp., West Palm Beach, Fla., has acquired seven concrete plants and a small building products distribution operation. The plants are located in Pensacola, Fort Walton, Crestview, Point Washington, Panama City Beach and Panama...

Oglebay Norton closes on $305 million debtor-in-possession financing.(Stockpile: the latest industry news)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Oglebay Norton Co. has closed on a $305 million second debtor-in-possession (DIP) credit facility with a syndicate of lenders led by Silver Point Finance LLC. The facility was earlier approved by United States Bankruptcy Judge Joel B. Rosenthal...

Events.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2004... September 27-30, 2004 MINExpo International 2004 Las Vegas 301-694-5243 www.minexpo.com October 10-12, 2004 NSSGA Automation Conference & Expo Chicago 800-342-1415 www.nssga.org November 7-9, 2004...

Dredging seminar draws producers to Ohio.(Stockpile: the latest industry news)
August 1, 2004... More than 210 people attended the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association's Dredging Seminar & Expo held in Columbus, Ohio. The event featured a gathering dominated by aggregate producers (more than 70 percent) who took part in seminars,...

Virginia student named 2005 scholarship recipient.(Association News)(Miranda Gwyn Travis)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) named Miranda Gwyn Travis of Powhatan, Va., as the recipient of an $2,500 Jennifer Curtis Byler Scholarship for the Study of Public Affairs for the 2004-2005 academic year. Travis...

NSSGA announces winners of landscape architecture competition.(Stockpile: the latest industry news)(National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Students at Virginia Tech's Department of Landscape Architecture in Blacksburg, Va., captured two of the top three prizes in the 2004 Annual Student Competition in Landscape Architecture sponsored by the National Stone, Sand & Gravel...

Caterpillar: we're first company with full line of EPA-certified off-road engines.(Manufacturer News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certified a full line of Caterpillar off-road engines as compliant with Tier 3 standards slated to go into effect in January 2005 and January 2006. The EPA certification of seven Caterpillar...

ConocoPhillips oil products comply with the upcoming CI-4 Plus standard.(Stockpile: the latest industry news)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... ConocoPhillips Co. announced that its heavy-duty diesel engine oils from the Conoco, Phillips 66, 76 and Kendall brands are compliant with the upcoming API CI-4 Plus standard, a supplemental upgrade of the API CI-4 service category. API...

Crushing for tight specs.(TechWatch: cutting-edge solutions)
August 1, 2004... Hydrocone crushers manufactured by Sandvik Rock Processing are hydraulically adjusted. Hydrocones can be equipped with an automatic setting system, ASRi, which improves performance and provides integration into sophisticated plant-control...

Liebherr presents special wheel loaders at Bauma 2004.(TechWatch: cutting-edge solutions)(Liebherr Mining Equipment Co.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Liebherr showed various models from its range of medium and large wheel loaders at the 2004 Bauma + Mining show in Munich, Germany. The L 580 2plus2, the flagship of the Liebherr wheel loaders with a 195 kW (265 hp) engine and up to 17,850 kg...

Belt cleaners control costly carry-back.(TechWatch: cutting-edge solutions)
August 1, 2004... Carry-back is fugitive material that sticks to the conveyor belt after the belt passes over the head pulley. When left unchecked, carry-back causes material buildups on idlers, pulleys and other components--a costly problem that greatly affects...

Somewhere old, something new: boone Quarries-East, our 2004 Producer of the Year, built a completely new plant in its 70-year-old quarry.(Success Story Awards)
August 1, 2004... When Billy Sapp and Alan Barnes decided to replace the existing plant at their Boone Quarries-East operation, they knew the job would have to be done quickly. With the help of their equipment distributor, Continental Equipment Co., the team...

Reduce fines, increase profits: the most cost-effective crushing is not always accomplished in the pit.(Fines Reduction)
August 1, 2004... If you have been around the mining business long, you have heard that the cheapest way to crush stone is in the pit with explosives. This statement is true if the goal is to simply "make little ones out of big ones," and have no concerns about...

MINExpo International 2004: held every four years, MINExpo International will feature a wide variety of equipment and services for producers.(Special Report)
August 1, 2004... Aggregates producers, as well as anyone in the mining business, should be at MINExpo International 2004, September 27-30, 2004, in Las Vegas. MINExpo, held every four years, is one of the world's largest expositions and conferences focusing on...

NSSGA: Highway bill reauthorization 'problematic'.(National Affairs)(National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The reauthorization of TEA 21 remains problematic, according to the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA). Declared a "must-pass" bill in 2003 (when the program originally expired) the reauthorization process has deteriorated into a...

Congress passes fifth highway extension package.(National Affairs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Moments before recessing, the House approved legislation extending funding for federal highway programs through Sept. 24, and funding for federal transit, highway safety and motor carrier safety programs through Sept. 30. Shortly after House...

Senate Defense Appropriations bill includes highway fix.(National Affairs)
August 1, 2004... The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association reports that Senate appropriators quietly slipped a provision in the Defense Appropriations bill for FY 2004 that would add almost $314 million in allowable spending to the federal-aid highway...

New York.(Northeast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Pompa Brothers Inc. has an application pending with the Department of Environmental Conservation for a hard-rock extraction site along the Kayderosseras Ridge. The company now operates a sand and gravel pit off Coy Road in Greenfield. Ed Pompa,...

Alabama.(Southeast)
August 1, 2004... More than 50 people from southwestern Birmingham and surrounding neighborhoods met to protest a limestone quarry now operating in unincorporated Jefferson County near the Wenonah community, according to event organizers. The event was designed...

Maryland.(Southeast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Frederick's Board of Aldermen gave the green light for the city and Lafarge Quarry to explore using quarry water for city projects. The vote could lead to the city using 2 million gallons of water per day. The city has actively been exploring...

Pennsylvania.(Southeast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... After three months of review, the East Penn Township Planning Commission has decided to recommend that the township Zoning Hearing Board deny a quarry company's request to blast and remove sandstone along Hollow Road. Lehigh Asphalt Paving and...

Tennessee.(Southeast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The Rogers Group, as a CEO partner with East Lincoln Street Elementary School, recently donated its services to pave a much-needed new basketball court behind the school. The previous basketball court, according to Principal Jim Waters,...

West Virginia.(Southeast)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Massey Energy Co. violated state mining laws when it damaged dozens of Mingo County drinking water wells, a jury found. Massey's Delbarton Mining operation was negligent and failed to take proper steps to minimize the damage, the jury...

Wisconsin.(North Central)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Fairfield Township's chairman promises he will investigate what opportunities for regulation apply to a controversial Highway A sand pit. About 60 people packed the Fairfield Town Hall during the town board meeting. Many were present to...

New Mexico.(South Central)(Old Hickory Clay Co)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Old Hickory Clay Co. President J. Lee Powell was honored at the Industrial Minerals Association-North America awards ceremony in Pueblo Santa Ana, N.M. Old Hickory Clay is the only recipient of safety recognition awards for two different levels...

Texas.(South Central)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... More than one-third of rock quarries in Central and East Central Texas are operating without proper permits, state regulators say. A month-long audit by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has also found frequent violations, including...

Montana.(Mountian)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... State officials have approved the expansion of a rock quarry near Emigrant to allow the addition of a concrete mixing plant and an asphalt plant. The Black Diamond Quarry has operated intermittently in Paradise Valley for 70 years, supplying...

Nebraska.(Mountian)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... A sand and gravel operation along South Locust Street won approval for a renewed conditional-use permit from the Grand Island City Council, despite the council's rejection of a similar operation less than a mile away. At issue was a request...

California.(Pacific)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Neighbors of a proposed rock quarry approved by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors filed suit seeking new environmental studies. Supervisors gave final approval last month for development of the Handley Ranch Quarry in Chualar. Granite...

Oregon.(Pacific)(Department of Geology and Mineral Industries)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Despite concerns by local farmers about environmental and geologic impacts, state officials are drafting a mining permit that would allow CC Meisel Co. to open a major new gravel pit on the 169-acre Hester property southeast of Dayton. Issuance...

Answering curiosity's call.(Safety)
August 1, 2004... When something bad happens in a plant, people start to ask questions. Loss control textbooks list the costs of having an injury or no injury incident. Traditionally, supervisory investigation of the incident is listed as one of the indirect...

MSHA liability for injuries to mine employees.(Law)(Mine Safety and Health Administration)
August 1, 2004... Two miners who were permanently disabled as a result of a roof fall at a mine in Tucson, Ariz., sued MSHA for monetary compensation. Joseph Olson and Javier Vargas claimed that MSHA was guilty of negligence. They said essentially that MSHA's...

MSHA secretly changes 27-year policy on releasing inspectors' notes.(Legal Highlights)
August 1, 2004... Mine operators, miners, their families and the press will no longer be able to get MSHA inspector notes from a mine inspection, unless the operator or miner is willing to go through legal proceedings and the discovery process. This is...

Producers, manufacturers still waiting for highway bill.(Economics)
August 1, 2004... Stone producers across the United States have been hit hard by higher fuel prices, which set record after record in the spring before moderating after the Memorial Day holiday. Although Iraq has become an almost-sovereign nation, attacks on its...

Construction rises one percent in May.(Economics)
August 1, 2004... At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $556.1 billion, new construction starts in May were up 1 percent compared to the previous month, it was reported by McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Nonresidential...

James D. Lincoln (1951-2004).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 1, 2004... Jim successfully climbed Mount Rainier in July 2001. The aggregates industry lost a great friend with the passing of Jim Lincoln of Kolberg-Pioneer Inc., who died on July 19, after a valiant two-year struggle with brain lymphoma. Jim was a...

Looking to buy? Contact these advertisers for your equipment and service needs.(Directory)(Illustration)
August 1, 2004... Looking to Buy? CONTACT THESE ADVERTISERS FOR YOUR EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE NEEDS Associations/Shows/Auctions MINExpo 202-463-2611 www.minexpo.com Automation/Computers Command Alkon Inc....