If the capacity of a bulk stockpiling operation needs to be increased, the trend nowadays, thanks to scarce land availability, is to squeeze maximum performance from the available stockyard machines(s), rather than extend the surface area of the facility.
Traditionally stockyard facilities – whether handling coal, iron ore, limestone, industrial minerals, or whatever – have tended not to be very precisely controlled or regulated. Spillage and windblown dust pollution have been regarded as a fact of life, while estimates at any given time of stockpile tonnage, rates of infeed and outfeed have at worst been haphazard and at best approximate....
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