Heidelberg Materials secures 30-year Slite quarry permit
Heidelberg Materials ’ 30-year permit to continue limestone extraction at Slite , Sweden, has become legally binding after the Swedish Supreme Court declined to hear further app...
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Heidelberg Materials secures Westdown final planning agreement
The agreement on planning conditions with Somerset Council follows the council's earlier approval of the scheme to bring the dormant 160Mt quarry back into operation. Westdown q...
Breedon Group acquires Missouri limestone quarry
Located near St Louis, Missouri, Fallings Springs Quarry is a high-automated quarry with 185Mt of limestone reserves. The quarry has an output of more than 2.2Mta and will be in...
INSEE restarts rail transport of Aruwakkalu limestone
Ditwah caused damage to a 3km-long trajectory of the line, including the bridge. The damaged part of the railway was repaired at a cost of LKR1.5bn (US$4.84m) during a project t...
Holcim readies limestone transport for new Obourg kiln
Holcim is developing the river and rail transport facilities at the Vaulx site, near Obourg, Belgium. The facilities will transport limestone extracted from Vaulx and then shipp...
Star Cement awarded Rajasthan limestone block
Star Cement Ltd' s Star Cement North East Ltd has been declared the preferred bidder for the Prewar (SN-IV) limestone block in Rajasthan, India. Located in Village Joga, Tehsil ...
Bangladesh imports of clinker slide in FY24
Bangladesh's cement industry has seen fluctuations in clinker imports over the past two years. According to data from the Bangladesh Central Bank, the country imported clinker w...
Zimbabwe considers limestone deposit consolidation amid efforts to reduce cement costs
The government of Zimbabwe is exploring the consolidation of limestone deposits under either the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe (IDCZ) or the Ministry of Mines a...
Punjab increases limestone royalty rate
To increase revenue from the mining sector, the government of Punjab, Pakistan, has announced an increase in the royalty rate on limestone to six per cent of the ex-factory sale...
Tarmac embraces Schaeffler OPTIME solution
Schaeffler’s OPTIME wireless condition monitoring solution is helping prevent unplanned downtime of machines and auxiliary equipment at the Tarmac Tunstead limestone plant near ...