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This book is published by The Institute of Quarrying in the United Kingdom, and forms part of a series that provides a broad insight into the production of aggregates.

The book concentrates on land-based operations, covering overburden removal, winning the deposit and processing it. There is also a chapter on dredging.

The author is a qualified geologist, and has been involved in quarry management with a major producer in the U.K.

The book covers overburden and material removal with excavators and dump trucks, scrapers, front end loaders and the use of pumps or field conveyors to transport the material. Wet working using clam shell buckets, suction dredges and jet pumps are detailed.

Gravel washing plant layout, stock pile capacities and plant monitoring techniques are described. A further chapter on washing and scrubbing and wet and dry screening explains more on plant make-up.

Finally there are chapters on classification, de-sliming and dewatering using hydrocyclones, mechanical classifiers and screw classifiers.

This is a handy reference book for any one intending to operate a gravel or sand pit

Code No. 007596