Mining Operations

Survey, then benching, then overburden off until sound rock is exposed. On most sites that is two to four weeks before a saleable tonne moves. Better to hear the figure now than with the plant already erected.

Komatsu, Kobelco and L&T, twenty of them, sized from face loading down to trimming a bench. All owned, so availability is something we fix in our own workshop rather than a line in your risk register.

Client-held leases are the usual arrangement: the mineral stays in your name and we produce against it. Where a client has no appetite for running a quarry, we work our own leases and sell tonnes instead.

Royalty returns, transit passes, district permissions, the magazine licence for explosives. Dull work, and the commonest reason a quarry stands idle with a new plant erected over it. Each file has a name against it here.

Samruddhi Mahamarg basalt. Granite in Karnataka, sandstone through Bundelkhand, hill rock up in Manipur. None of them behave alike, and fragmentation, wear rates and crusher settings were worked out again on every one.

Benches left at a safe angle, faces stable, the pit handed back in a condition that will not become an argument between the lease holder and the district office after we have gone.