Buckle up your belts, it might get a little rocky! Did you know a crusher will reduce rubble to make rocks of a number of useful sizes? The large rocks go in the crusher and when they come out they are much smaller and of different sizes. Cool isn't it ? They are many types of crushers. Gyratory crushers and cone crushers are popular. Cone and gyratory crushers are machines that break up the ore by means of a rotating cone.

In these pictures, the front end loader is picking up rock to take it to the crusher.

The rock is dropped off and is then ready to get crushed and separated.		The wheel and axle is an important part of the crusher.

Notice how the rock moves on the conveyer belt.		The crusher at work