Golden Nugget – Drilling and Blasting

Details:
Site Name: Bayston Hill Quarry
Quarry Manager: Ray De Jong
Works Manager: Mike Gale
AOM: Damian McClean

Description:
In 2013 Bayston Hill changed the initiation system for blasting
from shock tube to electronics detonators. This resulted in an
immediate reduction in ground vibration and fewer
complaints from local residents. In early 2016 the new QM
reviewed the previous year’s blast design and cost of 46ppt.
A series of trials were carried out by utilising a wider blast
pattern (increased in increments of 0.2m, from 4.4m x 4.4m Insert Picture Here
to 5.2m x 5.2m) and different initiation timings between the
holes and the rows. This has resulted in larger blasts,
improved fragmentation, less secondary breakage, controlled
vibration and a significant cost saving. It is also important to
remember that electronic detonators can be tested before
firing and have reduced the risk of misfires by a factor of
four or five.

Bayston Hill has reduced the blasting costs by around 15%

or £0.07 per ton. This will add up to c.£75k in 2016.

For further details contact Ray de Jong, Ian

Brown or the MOS team
Golden Nugget – AdBlue

Details:
Site Name: Scorton
Quarry Manager: Alan Coe
AOM: Alan Scalley
MOS: Mark Spenceley

Description:
A site accidently put AdBlue into the Fuel tank. AdBlue is
very corrosive and, if put into the wrong tank, can result in
thousand of pounds in cost – one site lost the machine for
10days at a cost of £12,000

Solution: Insert Picture Here

Fit a nozzle arrangement ,as per the pictures, that will only
dispense when the nozzle is inserted into the magnetic collar
that sits as an insert in the filling point.

Note:- some vehicles that need adblue already have these

fitted so you don't always need to buy the insert collar.

This is seen as a very cost effective and practical solution to

prevent this happening on site.

There are several suppliers if you google "adblue nozzle"-

This site got theirs off Amazon.

For further details contact the MOS team