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Equipment care in limestone mining is a real challenge

From a distance, the bright yellow trucks moving back and forth across the muddy landscape look like children’s toys in a giant sandbox. But as you get closer, and the trucks rumble by – their wheels alone are two meters high – you start to realize the scale of Belgium’s Beez quarry, carved out of the face of the earth and measuring some 80 meters from top to bottom.
Wednesday 8 July, 2009 04:18 PM

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