Associate editor, Buyers’ Guide manager join Pit & Quarry team
Megan Wilkinson Chloe Kalin Pit & Quarry continues to add to its staff, adding an associate editor in Megan Wilkinson, a 2014 graduate of Kent State University. Wilkinson earned a bachelor’s degree...
View ArticleWorking class traditions
One family contributes four generations of workers to the Bluegrass Materials Texas Quarry in Maryland. About half a dozen companies have owned the Texas Quarry in Cockeysville, Md., over the past 50...
View ArticleBest practices: Washing & classifying
Industry expert John Bennington discusses washing and classifying techniques with Pit & Quarry. Bennington John Bennington, product manager at Superior Industries, led an educational session on the...
View ArticleReclamation plan to turn quarry into giant water reservoir
The Bellwood Quarry, a 100-year-old granite quarry in Atlanta, has generated a lot of talk in Georgia lately. The quarry will soon undergo construction to be converted into one of the nation’s largest...
View ArticleBest practices: Screening
Deister’s Joe Schlabach discusses the benefits of different screening options – and more – with Pit & Quarry. Joe Schlabach, vice president of marketing and sales with Deister Machine Co., led an...
View ArticleBrick & mortar: P&Q’s partnership
Pit & Quarry partners with the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum in Colorado to create a national aggregates exhibit. The National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum in Leadville, Colo.,...
View ArticleA better-trained workforce
Click to view slideshow. A number of aggregate producers, manufacturers and allied trade representatives say a shortage of heavy equipment operators is plighting the aggregates and mining industries....
View ArticleLong-term, short-term highway funding feud
The Senate approved a long-term highway-funding bill. The House of Representatives approved a short-term highway-funding bill. And at the end of July, the House cornered the Senate into approving a...
View ArticleA better-trained workforce
John Deere equipment simulators A number of aggregate producers, manufacturers and allied trade representatives say a shortage of heavy equipment operators is plighting the aggregates and mining...
View ArticleScouting the future
Scouting and mining always seem to find their way into Frank McAllister’s life. McAllister, chairman of the board for the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum, says his father was a scoutmaster...
View ArticleThree’s company: Growing a frac sand mining operation
The wet processing plant incorporates screens, separators, hydrocyclones and a hydrosizer that separates sand from the dredge (below). Doug Schmidt had no experience in mining or aggregates four years...
View ArticleOperation’s expansion project stimulates steady growth
Two loadout lanes and an expanding customer base meant the line of trucks at Tyler, Texas-based NBR Sand kept growing. An increasing numbers of customers is a good problem to have, though. To mitigate...
View ArticleRunning an operation from a wheelchair
A Rubble Master RM80GO portable crusher is a successor to the RM80, a crusher Webster Gravel and Asphalt purchased in 2009. A number of people start their morning with a cup of coffee. John Robbins,...
View ArticleBest practices: Screening
Deister’s Joe Schlabach discusses the benefits of different screening options – and more – with Pit & Quarry. Joe Schlabach, vice president of marketing and sales with Deister Machine Co., led an...
View ArticleLong-term, short-term highway funding feud
The Senate approved a long-term highway-funding bill. The House of Representatives approved a short-term highway-funding bill. And at the end of July, the House cornered the Senate into approving a...
View ArticleScouting the future
Scouting and mining always seem to find their way into Frank McAllister’s life. McAllister, chairman of the board for the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum, says his father was a scoutmaster...
View ArticleThree’s company: Growing a frac sand mining operation
The wet processing plant incorporates screens, separators, hydrocyclones and a hydrosizer that separates sand from the dredge (below). Doug Schmidt had no experience in mining or aggregates four years...
View ArticleOperation’s expansion project stimulates steady growth
Two loadout lanes and an expanding customer base meant the line of trucks at Tyler, Texas-based NBR Sand kept growing. An increasing numbers of customers is a good problem to have, though. To mitigate...
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