Question 1

Does it suit a small quarry with a handful of machines?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A quarry with a few loaders and trucks records its shifts and its diesel the same way a large pit does, on the phone. Nobody retypes the day at night.

Question 2

How are blasts at the face recorded?

Accepted Answer

Each blast has its own record with the charge and a reconciliation afterwards, and powder factor shows on it. The metres drilled for it sit in the drilling records.

Question 3

Can we see product leaving the quarry?

Accepted Answer

The stockpile register shows what each product pile holds after every survey, reconciled against what the plant recorded as it produced.

From the blast to the stockpile.

Quarries and aggregates: questions