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Nevada Industrial Switch is an active private railroad in Nevada, United States. [1] The railroad runs over Union Pacific's former "Fibreboard Spur". The line serves the PABCO Gypsum Mine that produces sheet rock.
Gold Bond: Gold Bond is produced by National Gypsum Services Company's drywall division, Gold Bond Building Products. Pabco QuietRock : QuietRock is sound-dampening gypsum drywall. How Sheetrock ...
Steep roof materials are roofs that are only recommended where water can freely and openly drain off the edge of the roof without retaining water for too long. [1] The aim is to drain off water completely due to the high water permeability of most of these materials, for instance: the Thatched roofs.
Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...
The Blue Diamond Mine and mill is a gypsum production facility at Blue Diamond Hill in Clark County, Nevada. [1] The mine was initially owned by a Los Angeles company known as Blue Diamond, which began mining the land in 1925.
Gypsum Cave is a limestone cave [2] in eastern Clark County, Nevada, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) east of Las Vegas, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [ 1 ] Description
For 63 years, from 1948 to 2011, Empire was a company town of the US Gypsum Corporation, a manufacturer of gypsum based construction sheetrock, and once had a population of more than 750 people. US Gypsum closed the mine and the town in 2011; the mine and town were bought in 2016 by the Empire Mining Company (EMC), a manufacturer of gypsum ...
A gypsum block is made of gypsum plaster and water. The manufacturing process [1] is automated at production plants where raw gypsum (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O) is ground and dried, then heated to remove three-quarters of the bound water and thus transformed into calcium sulfate hemihydrate (CaSO 4 ·½H 2 O), also known as gypsum plaster, stucco, calcined gypsum or plaster of Paris.