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2. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Aberdeen Quarry, an abandoned granite quarry in Gunnison County, Colorado. Its granite was used in construction of the Colorado State Capitol; Marble, Colorado, only site of Yule Marble quarrying, in the West Elk Mountains. 99.5% pure calcite, discovered in 1873, source of marble for the Tomb of the Unknowns and for the exterior of the Lincoln ...

3. Coldspring (company) - Wikipedia

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   Coldspring is a quarrier and fabricator of granite and other natural stone and a bronze manufacturing company in the United States. [1] Coldspring serves the memorials market, the design and architectural market and distributes slabs for the residential market, industrial products, raw quarry blocks, and diamond tools.

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5. Sebago Granite - Wikipedia

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   This Sebago Granite is a 2-mica granite, and is mainly composed of potassium feldspar, quartz, biotite, and muscovite. Its composition is homogeneous in nature with fine to medium grain sizes. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The proportions of biotite and muscovite vary throughout the unit, and garnet is common in some locations. [ 3 ]

6. Browns Head Light - Wikipedia

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   Browns Head is a promontory near the western entrance to the Thoroughfare, and the lighthouse is located on its western shore. The lighthouse is a cylindrical granite structure with a six-sided lantern house, 18 feet (5.5 m) in height, standing with its light about 37 feet (11 m) above sea level. The light has a range of 15 miles (24 km).

7. Decomposed granite - Wikipedia

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   Decomposed granite is a kind of granite rock that is weathered to the point that the parent material readily fractures into smaller pieces of weaker rock. Further weathering yields material that easily crumbles into mixtures of gravel -sized particles known as grus that further may break down to produce a mixture of clay and silica sand or silt ...