Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
T.J. Gipple's stone quarry, near NRHP-listed Gipple's Quarry Bridge (1893), Columbus Junction, Iowa; Old State Quarry, North Liberty, Iowa, NRHP-listed; Quarry, Iowa, site of limestone quarrying in Marshall County, Iowa. Town was laid out by Le Grand Quarry Company in 1868. Nearby Quarry Bridge, in Marshalltown, Iowa, is NRHP-listed.
The stone from these quarries was used for the commemorative stones for Federation and for the foundation of Canberra and many war memorials. [1] The ballast quarry was important to the construction of the Great Southern Railway line from Mittagong to Goulburn, in the late 19th century. For a hundred years stonemasons and quarrymen used their ...
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to manage their safety risks and reduce their environmental impact.
Only hand tools are used to reach the catlinite so it takes a long time to get to it. Only enrolled Native Americans are allowed to quarry for the stone at the Pipestone National Monument, and thus it is protected from over-mining. Another quarry is located near Hayward, Wisconsin on the reservation, which the Ojibwa have used for centuries ...
In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons [6] [2] [3] apartments and Marble Cliff Crossing, a 100 single-family and 60 double-family subdivision built between 1998 and 2003. [7]
A new crushed rock facility was added at the Permanente Quarry in 1957 to turn quarry overburden, normally a waste material, into base rock for highway construction. It was expected that the new plant would provide 500,000 tons of materials annually. [71] Henry J. Kaiser said, "Pink makes you feel good."
Wake Stone Corp. and opponents have spent well over $1 million on the years-long legal battle over the proposed quarry on land owned by Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry (38CK69) is a historic archaeological site located near Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. The site includes the most extensive and best preserved limestone quarry associated with early iron production in the northwestern Piedmont of South Carolina. It was the primary source of limestone for the region's ironworks.