A large Powerscreen 1000 Maxtrak cone crusher undergoes repair and maintenance at a busy aggregate processing and quarry site ...

State lawmakers are once again seeking to remove local control over gravel mining operations. A series of House bills introduced earlier this month would give the Michigan Department of Environment, ...

Developers have cut way back on the amount of material they seek to remove in a controversial gravel-mining operation in Lake Eunice Township, in the Cormorant Lake area. Prairie Lake Investments LLC ...

Mining companies that produce gravel, sand and other aggregate have been pushing for years for a law that changes who approves permits for their operations. Now, they're trying again. New legislation ...

Lansing — A bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers are resurrecting a proposal to transfer oversight of aggregate mining permits and operations from local communities to state regulators amid a ...

WELD COUNTY — Holcim Inc. has purchased an aggregate mining operation located along the South Platte River east of Greeley and north of Kersey. The operation will be renamed the Scout Island Facility ...

The Michigan state house was packed May 9 as lawmakers heard from aggregate industry representatives and “local control” supporters. The discussion concerned recently introduced legislation (HB ...

Lansing — The Democratic-controlled Michigan House has pressed pause on a vote on long-debated legislation that would remove local control over gravel mining permits as the road construction industry ...

A hydraulic excavator feeds large rocks into a powerful mobile crushing plant at an active quarry site. The industrial crusher and conveyor system process stone and aggregate materials efficiently for ...

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A hypnotic maze of subdivisions stretches along Anderson Mill Road as you drive north out of Austin. Then, just before you reach downtown Cedar Park, towering mounds of loose rock rise like ashes from ...