Pit & Quarry, December 2011

ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE MATSON Rulemaking has clearly increased under the current administration with plans to further regulate mining without any clear justification behind the rulemaking This leads to a lot of inconsistencies and interpretation And the movement continues toward strong enforcement and less towards helping the operators in compliance and to make their operation safer METZGAR There are still sects in part of the world where McLaughlin McKinney Matson the leader handles venomous snakes Depending on how the snake is handled the snake is perfectly content But occasionally the snake bites Thats what youre dealing with 2000 out of control inspectors If theyre handled the way they want to be handled theyre nice and nothing happens But if the district office or the subdistrict office says Your quota goes from eight citations to 10 the snake is going to bite Im at a loss to figure out how we regain control and how we influence this MATSON Ten or 15 years ago there was more of a partnership when an inspector came on your site You werent automatically guilty You as an operator felt like you had some say in the inspection and it was more of a give and take and they were there to help Its not that way anymore McLAUGHLIN To me thats a step backwards CLARKE Were building a brick wall higher between MSHA the manufacturer and producer and rather than trying to figure out what MSHA is doing I believe we should be trying to make more of an effort to work with MSHA to see what we can do to lower that wall and improve those relationships Health and safety is important to all of us PARKS Weve seen some changes and I think perhaps Secretary Main has delivered on his commitment to change some of the attitudes of some of the overzealous inspectors and perhaps even root out some that were abusing their authority MATSON I have to agree We have seen some improvement on writing good paper instead of bad paper CONSTANTINO What do you mean by that Money from WANT SAND REMco SandMax CRUSHERS PRODUCE HIGH SAND VOLUME FOR PENNIES PER TON FOR EXAMPLE PRODUCE SAND FROM ABRASIVE GRAVEL AT 100 TPH FOR LESS THAN 015 PER FINISHED TON PRODUCE SAND FROM HARD GRANITE AT 120 TPH FOR LESS THAN 018 PER FINISHED TON PRODUCE SAND FROM SILICA QUARTZ AT 70 TPH FOR LESS THAN 025 PER FINISHED TON PRODUCING QUALITY SPECIFICATION SAND REQUIRES MORE THAN A CRUSHER IT REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE A WELL DESIGNED MATERIAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND THE WILLINGNESS TO UNDERSTAND THAT SAND PRODUCTION IS HARDER THAN CRUSHING ROCK AT REMco WE CAN TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY BY PRODUCING THE BEST MANUFACTURED SAND WITH STATIONARY OR PORTABLE SandMax CRUSHERS AT REMco WE BACK UP OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND MACHINES WITH WRITTEN GUARANTEES FOR PERFORMANCE AND WEAR COST IF YOURE STILL UNSURE ASK US ABOUT OUR TRY BUY PROGRAM Rock Engineered Machinery Co Inc 4 7BTDP 3PBE t JWFSNPSF t 64 5FM t BY NBJM DSVTI SFNDPWTJ DPN t 8FCTJUF XXX SFNDPWTJ DPN BOOTH 405 COME AND VISIT US AT THE SHOW 20 PIT QUARRY December 2011 www pitandquarry com