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Tyndall Stone is a registered trademark name by Gillis Quarries Ltd. Tyndall Stone is a dolomitic limestone that is quarried from the Selkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation in the vicinity of Garson and Tyndall, Manitoba, Canada. It is a cream-coloured limestone with a pervasive mottling of darker dolomite.
Gillies Hill is located west of Stirling and the M9, south of Cambusbarron, and north of the Bannock Burn in Central Scotland.. Gillies Hill covers a 140 hectares (350 acres) crag and tail which rises from a height of 79 metres (259 ft) at the Bannock Burn Bridge near Sauchie Craig to an elevation of 162 m (531 ft) at a point which overlooks the former quarrying operation to the west and ...
Ballyknockan quarry, or more correctly Ballyknockan quarries, [4] are a collection of disused granite quarries in the village of Ballyknockan, County Wicklow, Ireland. [5] [1] [6] From the early 19th century onward, the site was "probably the most important area for supplying cut stone blocks of granite for the construction of many of Dublin city's major public buildings", according to a ...
This is a list of notable quarries and areas of quarrying in the United States. A number of these are historic quarries listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), ranging from relatively ancient archeological sites to places having pre-World War II activity. This includes major areas of continuing, modern quarrying.
This is a list of notable quarries, worldwide.. In Australia: Bombo Headland Quarry Geological Site; Boogardie quarry; Boya, Western Australia; Cronulla sand dunes; Moorooduc Quarry Flora and Fauna Reserve
The historic Gillis-Grier House would have a lot to say. It was built in 1887 by James Cannon, but is named for the two families who owned the property between 1896 to 1975.
A quarry at Carrara in Tuscany, Italy A Portland stone quarry on the Isle of Portland, England An abandoned construction aggregate quarry near Adelaide, South Australia An abandoned stone quarry in Kerala, India Stone quarry in Soignies, Hainaut (province), Belgium Matera quarry in Basilicata, Italy Donnerkuhle Quarry, near Hagen, Germany Prospect Quarry gap in Sydney, Australia
The area around the quarries is now fenced off and overgrown with vegetation The Barbour County Courthouse (1903–05) in Philippi, West Virginia, USA; its exterior is faced entirely in Hummelstown brownstone. Hummelstown brownstone pits were first opened by early German settlers in the late 18th Century. The Berst family were the original ...