Consultation set for Shoreham Cement Works redevelopment
The South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA), UK, is launching an eight-week public consultation on how West Sussex’s largest brownfield site, the former Shoreham Cement Work...
Quarry Rehabilitation
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Lafarge Canada's Point Anne Quarry wins OSSGA Award
Lafarge Canada 's Point Anne Quarry in Thurlow has received the 2021 Progressive Rehabilitation Award from the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (OSSGA). The award, which...
Bringing an old quarry to life Premium
Quarry rehabilitation comprises more than just the planting of different varieties of trees on land no longer used. Cimenterie Nationale’s rehabilitation project in Lebanon also...
The digital quarry Premium
Quarries often give the impression that they have been forgotten in capital investment projects, having bypassed technological changes for several years. However, the quarry is ...
Quarry Life 2018 Award winners announced
A team from the University of South Wales has won HeidelbergCement Group's Quarry Life Awards 2018 for its biodiversity project. The project investigated the value of translocat...
Cemex renews Birdlife conservation partnership
Cemex announced it is renewing its partnership with Birdlife International, the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. The renewal extends the cement producer’s 10-yea...
Punjab cement industry to be regulated after three decades
The cement industry in Punjab, Pakistan, is being brought under regulatory control of the provincial government again, after 29 years.
Dominican Republic: Cemex carries out reforestation at San Pedro de Macorís
With the help of 100 volunteer employees, Cemex organised a reforestation day at the quarry of its San Pedro de Macorís in the Dominican Republic as part of its “Manos a la Obra...
Holcim Indonesia develops Educational Forest
Holcim Indonesia, in collaboration with the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, has jointly developed Holcim Educational Forest (HEF), a rehabilitated former quarry mining site cove...
HeidelbergCement announces winners International Quarry Life Award
On 13 December 2012, the awards were presented to the international recipients at a ceremony in Heidelberg. The guest speaker for the event was none other than primate researche...