Have you ever wondered how much aggregate it takes to build a home? 🏡 Well, it's about 250 tonnes of stone, sand, and gravel from pits and quarries! That's roughly equivalent to 12 truckloads or the weight of 25 elephants. 🐘
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🔨✨ The perfection is in the process!
BOLDER, our dedicated quarry team, is hard at work turning sandstone into gravel and sand. 🌟👷♂️
Check out the entire transformation!
Are you curious to know more? Drop your questions and comments below! 👇
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🔨✨ The perfection is in the process!
BOLDER, our dedicated quarry team, is hard at work turning sandstone into gravel and sand. 🌟👷♂️
Check out the entire transformation!
Are you curious to know more? Drop your questions and comments below! 👇
#BolderTeam#QuarryLife#SandstoneToGravel#ProcessPerfection#AskUsAnything
Cocking Tor Quarry, otherwise known as Robin Quarry, is a very well-hidden disused quarry.
The quarry sits on top of an extraordinary little crag overlooking Amber Valley. Home to one of the best E2s on Grit 'Cyclop's Eye' , a product of the late, great Tom Proctor.
John Allen also visited this brilliant rock, leaving one of the most photogenic lines in the valley, 'Jelly Ache,', a well-protected E3 area.
Most walkers would have passed it by, and if it wasn’t for a toilet break and a place to drink coffee, I’m sure we would have.
Ashover is famous for its gritstone, which has a variety of uses, from millstones to building stones. One use you might overlook is making pulping stones for paper manufacturing.
This quarry was used for manufacturing millstones and pulping stones, hence why the large rigging. Also, it had good roads in and out for transport.
A little bit of geology for you.
Around Ashover, the Grit generally has a thick main bed of 200 feet with one or more subsidiary beds below. The main bed consists of medium to coarse-grained sandstone with bands of pebbles.
Formerly, an 80-ft face was exposed here, of which the lower portion was seen to be fine-grained, compact, thickly bedded sandstone.
The Ashover Grit crops out around the inlier of Carboniferous Limestone at Ashover, though it is masked in places in the north by boulder clay. For the most part, it occurs as a single bed about 200 ft thick and forms conspicuous craggy escarpments. It cow
🔨✨ The perfection is in the process!
BOLDER, our dedicated quarry team, is hard at work turning sandstone into gravel and sand. 🌟👷♂️
Check out the entire transformation!
Are you curious to know more? Drop your questions and comments below! 👇
#BolderTeam#QuarryLife#SandstoneToGravel#ProcessPerfection#AskUsAnything
Understanding the layers of an Indiana Limestone Quarry.
Once the Overburden (dirt), aggregate and waste layers are scraped away the ledges or benches of Indiana Limestone (sometimes referred to as Salem or Bedford Limestone) are exposed and ready for harvesting. Typical layering for color and grade are as follows:
Bench 1 = Rustic grade (typically buff color)
Bench 2 = Select/Standard grade & Buff color
Bench 3 = Full Color Blend material
Bench 4 = Gray color material
Important to note: Not all quarries have all grades & colors of stone so it’s important to know what quarries are providing stone to ensure you are getting what was specified.
Feel free to contact me for more information.
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🔨✨ The perfection is in the process!
BOLDER, our dedicated quarry team, is hard at work turning sandstone into gravel and sand. 🌟👷♂️
Check out the entire transformation!
Are you curious to know more? Drop your questions and comments below! 👇
#BolderTeam#QuarryLife#SandstoneToGravel#ProcessPerfection#AskUsAnything
A walk around town can help you see just how important local stone is. Roads, sidewalks, foundations, footings all require locally sourced stone. Can you see all the areas in this photo that need, use, or rely on stone? #LocalStone
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4moGreat looking, well thought out spread, love the drone flight path following the material flow! Well done.