Articles from Wardrop Minerals Management Limited

Supply Chain Resilience and the Environment

I sit on two of the Mineral Products Association committees and therefore try to speak for a wider constituency than just the aggregates industry. The minerals I refer to are the solid, non energy, industrial minerals.

The Importance of Water to the Minerals Industry in Britain

The importance of water to the minerals industry, the ambitions of Lafarge to achieve full water footprinting, and the contribution that good science will be needed to make in the future.

A Few Quarry Problems Solved

Coastal gravel quarry in a Scottish raise bed, A limestone quarry in Staffordshire, A gritstone quarry in South Wales and many more.

Minerals Sterilisation considerations for Land Developers

For many years, since minerals planning was formalised through a Minerals Local Plan based system in the early 1980s, County Councils as mineral planning authorities have carried a general responsibility to try and avoid mineral resources - mainly bulk materials such as aggregates and clays - from being sterilised, or put beyond use, by permanent surface development.

In the author's experience this responsibility was discharged fairly patchily in the distant past but following the introduction of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in 2012 many Counties are applying sterilisation policies with greater vigour.

Frequency Analysis of Clays in a Sedimentary Sandstone Sequence

The author's former company in the early 1980s purchased and began to develop a High Polished Stone Value (PSV) quarry in South Wales. The geological sequence was the Carboniferous Pennant Sandstone and altogether about 160 metres vertical thickness of this deposit was to be intercepted by the quarry working.

Prior to purchasing the operation a core drilling exercise was carried out involving drilling through the full relevant sequence.

Aggregates Landsearch - Then and Now - Changing practices in land search for aggregates and other construction materials

It is a simple truism that minerals can only be worked where they lie, and quarries for sand and gravel or for crushed rock need landsearch activity to identify mineral bearing land for greenfield developments or extensions to existing operations.

Supply Chain Risks due to Extreme Weather Events

The UK Government is aware of risks that are posed by extreme weather events to infrastructure such as roads, railways, power and communications systems, and consultations have taken place with various industrial sectors. The minerals industry as represented by producers of solid, non-energy, industrial minerals and construction materials has a voice in that consultation.

Responding to DEFRA at the MIRO Review of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Research Projects, Wellington Arch, London - 12th March 2008

Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen:

It is a privilege to be able to respond on behalf of the Mineral Industry Research Organisation to DEFRA's Review of the Sustainability Fund Research Projects. MIRO and English Heritage have selected a most interesting venue for this launch and The Wellington Arch is perhaps slightly more relevant than many people might at first think.

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