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Published Nationally ® December 20 2020 Vol. IX • No. 26
Western Edition
Survey Says: 4Rivers Delivers for Sweatt
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Inside
Officials Approve $2 Billion for Improvements...8
Goodfellow Bros. Receives Commerative Cat D6 XE...18
Sweatt Construction utilizes a John Deere 331G track loader with Level Best grading attachment and Topcon 3D-MC grade control software works on reclaiming a creek bed on the Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico. Calder Brothers Transforms Mauldin...21
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section..............21-31 Mini & Compact Equipment Section ..........................33-51 Auction Section ............53-58 Business Calendar ............54 Advertisers Index ..............58
Sweatt Construction’s Jalan Barnett coordinating the drone controls and software.
A contractor is getting a lot of help from above on a challenging project in a remote corner of New Mexico, near the Colorado border. Sweatt Construction, with assistance from 4Rivers Equipment, is using drone technology and GPS machine control to efficiently complete a reclamation project at the abandoned Swastika Mine, a former silver and lead mine, near Raton, N.M. The project, commissioned by the New Mexico Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD), calls for the removal of coal waste (gob) and leftovers from the mining operation and restoring a stream channel to its natural state. But it’s rarely ever that easy and there is a catch: The mine and creek bed are now on private property owned by Turner Enterprises Inc. — the Vermejo Park Ranch that covers 590,000 acres. Due to state historical requirements, the contractor had to confine its excavation along the 1-mi. stretch to an area of just 20 ft. wide. see TECH page 32