Quarry Jul 2021

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A bird’s-eye view of the dual EvoWash units and the 20m large radial stockpiler.

FROM A SMALL START TO WASHING When Kingscliff Sands opened its doors it hired a mobile screening plant, an excavator and a loader. “We learnt very quickly what size screening we wanted, where we wanted our stockpiles to be and a number of other important factors,” Holloway said. “We then looked at a heap of plants, assessed what was good for our site and then we went to CDE for the washing plant.” Holloway first met with CDE’s Australasian regional manager Daniel Webber in 2019. Webber told Quarry the brief was pretty simple. “They wanted to efficiently make a washed sand that could create a quality construction sand blend but they also wanted to explore any other value adds that they could get from the operation’s resource,” Webber explained. “First and foremost was a washed sand for the construction industry and second, was to say ‘Can the sand be put to more beneficiated uses?’ So they were keen on the

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likes of glass sand, fracking sand and filtered sand.” Webber and other members of the CDE team came to site several times to better understand the Kingscliff team’s requirements. In turn, Holloway visited some of CDE’s customers in Queensland to see examples of its washing plants up close. “Brad travelled to Caldwell’s on the Sunshine Coast to view plant similar to his,” Webber said. “He also went to Nielsen’s in Brisbane to see some EvoWash units that have been working hard for the best part of four years to deliver materials for the Brisbane Airport project. I think those visits gave him confidence in the solution because he saw a system set up in the same application, and he saw an EvoWash plant that has been working reliably for an extended period of time.” After these visits and consultation with CDE, Kingscliff Sands eventually purchased


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