The Coldstone Limestone Quarry at Pateley Bridge

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The Coldstone Limestone Quarry at Pateley Bridge
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Quarry what quarry? - view of the
screen or bund which conceals the quarry
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The view across the quarry from the viewing
platform
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The view of the main plant from the viewing
platform
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The primary and secondary crushers from across
the quarry
Primary Crusher
Secondary Crusher
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The overburden of interbedded shale and sandstone
this is removed to build the bund around the
site
sandstone
shale
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Looking down into the quarry- notice the benches
which mark previous working levels
benches
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Freshly blasted rock on quarry floor
freshly blasted rock ready to be processed
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The big digger or Walking Dragline
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The shovel lifts 9 -gt 10 tonnes of rock
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Or even 7 students!
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The digger picks up the rock
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11 tonnes at a time
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and as each dumper truck arrives
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the digger drops the rock into the dumper truck
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which then drives off to the crushers
the minibus is dwarfed by the dumper truck
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carrying the rock from the rock face to the
primary crusher.
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The dumper reverses towards the primary crusher
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and then tips the rocks into the primary crusher.
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The rocks then cross the grissly rollers with
the finer dust falling through -gt
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and then the coarser rocks fall into the crusher
-gt
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where it is broken into fragments of different
sizes and fed onto the stockpiles to be fed into
the secondary crusher.
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Rachel drives a dumper truck
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Gibran takes control of loading a truck with
limestone aggregate
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whilst the lorry is loaded with limestone
aggregate
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All lorries are spray washed before leaving the
quarry
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Before leaving the quarry all lorries are weighed
on the weigh bridge
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After being weighed the lorry leaves the quarry