Quarrying and Crushing

Projects

Iron Baron Crushing & Screening

Lucas TCS has been engaged by Arrium Mining for the past 6 years to crush and screen iron ore at Iron Baron site. In addition,  the Lucas TCS team have been contracted to perform drill & blast operations whilst on this project.

Penrice - Angaston

Lucas TCS had a long-standing contract with former Penrice Mining Operation located at Angaston in the Barossa Valley.Historically Lucas TCS has provided load and haul services to Penrice in the form of two 120 tonne excavators and ten 60 tonne rigid dump trucks including ancillary equipment of grader, dozer and water trucks. This equipment was contracted for campaign overburden removal of a target 50,000 tonne per week from the mine to management/construction of waste dumps. Due to the location of the mine Lucas TCS had to take into account sensitive environmental issues in relation to the above works.Lucas TCS  provided mobile crushing plants in the form of  Metso LT1213S impactors and screens producing a variety of products from rail ballast to construction materials and aggregates.

In addition Lucas TCS supplied plant on an hourly hire basis to support Penrice’s existing fleet of equipment including loaders, excavators, dozers, haul trucks and crushing/screening equipment.

HOLCIM - Montacute

Operating in a hard rock quarry of Dolomite at Montacute, near Adelaide, Lucas TCS provided load and haul of production rock to crusher and removal and placement of overburden material in an operating quarry mine site. Lucas TCS also supplies plant hire to Montacute quarry for the crushing and stockpiling areas. Lucas TCS was also responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the safe haul and access tracks within the mine site.

OneSteel - Ardrossan

Lucas TCS was the principal contractor for many years, for removal and placement of overburden material at the OneSteel Ardrossan Dolomite mine site since the early 1990’s. Lucas TCS supplied plant hire to OneSteel for drilling and ancillary equipment. Lucas TCS again is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of equipment at the mine site.

McLaren Vale Quarries

Lucas TCS had been previously contracted by McLaren Vale Quarries for various works for approximately 20 years. The scope of works included overburden removal, quarry development, haul road construction and quarry rehabilitation. Lucas TCS held the contract for mining activities including topsoil stripping, waste removal of approximately 400,000 tonnes per annum, quarry to crusher, and 600,000 per annum, reclaiming stockpiles, quarry maintenance, development and rehabilitation.

Contract Crushing

Lucas TCS has completed many jobs for various regional Councils, DTEI, other Government Departments and private industry developers

Lucas TCS operates three Metso LT1213S Mobile Impact Crusher’s capable of crushing and screening upwards of 200 tonnes per hour of road base and construction materials.Campaigns of up to 800,000 tonnes for mining companies and road projects have been undertaken.