On 20 June 2014, the symposium “Innovative extraction and processing technology for fluorspar with reference to the Schoenbrunn and Boesenbrunn deposit” will be held in Freiberg. Focus of the...
Almost seventy percent of the total waste in Germany is mineral waste. The majority comes from the construction sector. Ash and slag from incineration and metallurgical processes also accrue in large...
From the limestone formations on the Eastern Alb, August Hutter GmbH has been quarrying limestone since 1956. At the quarry, a Hyundai HL770-9A from the latest 9A line has been working up to 10 hours...
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (HCM) has unveiled the new EH1100-5 rigid dump truck at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG trade show in Las Vegas (Fig.). The new truck has been designed to offer a more...
Pehofer GmbH have invested in a new modular gravel washing plant from CDE Global (Fig. 1) and held open days at their new site near Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria on 29th and 30th April 2014 to...
Exportadora del Sal S.A. (ESSA) operates huge sea water salt evaporation ponds not far from the city of Guerrero Negro in Western Mexico. The salt level “grows” by about 20 cm over the course of...
The new molybdenum processing facility will be built on a 20 ha plot of land in the port of Mejillones, in the Province of Antofagasta (Fig. 1). There are another 20 ha adjacent to the new facility...
Closed-cell expansion of perlite sands yield novel product properties for lightweight construction materials
1 Introduction
The expansion of perlite was discovered by accident in Arizona in 1946. Already back then the suitability of this new product for the production of insulating building material was...
On 25 and 26 April 2014, the 36th Information Meeting on Blasting is taking place. Focus topics at the meeting are:
Drilling and blasting from the application fields of demolition, rock engineering,...
Thanks to the Public-Private Partnership, the ecological construction industry in Italy is reporting good results. Unioncamere (Union of the Italian Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and...
