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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Poorly broken and displaced muck pile in a limestone quarry (diagonal firing linear scale 0.5 m). Fig. 13. Poor fragmentation results in a limestone quarry (row- to- row firing square scale 0.5 m x 0.5 m). Fig. 11. Good throw & drop in the limestone quarry (straight V- type firing). Fig. 14. Good throw and uniform fragmentation (diagonal firing).
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