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No blast no problem

CENTREX Metals has shown the Ardmore phosphate rock project can be mined by open cut methods without costly blasting or ripping of the weak shale overburden in dozer stripping trials on-site using a Caterpillar D9.

Karma Barndon
Centrex unveils its preferred stripper option.

Centrex unveils its preferred stripper option.

In a successful dozer stripping trial at the North West Queensland project, contractor MEC Mining used the D9 to excavate two trenches through the shale overburden within the northern and the southern...

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