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  2. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chile Bar Slate company quarry, off of highway CA193 next to the American River near Placerville, California; Limestone quarry near Auburn, California of the Mountain Quarries Company of San Francisco, a subsidiary of Pacific Portland Cement Company, near confluence of the North Fork and the Middle Fork of the American River.

  3. Roofing slates - Wikipedia

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    Roofing slates are roofing tiles made out of slate. The rock is split into thin sheets which are cut to the requires size before shipment. This contrasts to slabs which are milled to produce larger structural components. [1] They are the primary product of the slate industry.

  4. Slate industry - Wikipedia

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    The Slate Valley area, centering on a town called Granville in the state of New York is one of the places in the world where colored slate (i.e. slate which is not grey or blue) is obtained. (A fuller account is given in the article Slate: section Slate extraction.) Shale can metamorphose into slate; sometimes the fossils may remain intact

  5. Roof tiles - Wikipedia

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    One of the simplest designs of roof tile, these are simple overlapping slabs installed in the same manner as traditional shingles, usually held in place by nails or screws at their top. All forms of slate tile fall into this category. When installed, most of an individual shingle's surface area will be covered by the shingles overlapping it.

  6. Sett (paving) - Wikipedia

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    Laying setts in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2013 Setts in pallet collars. A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, [1] is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways.

  7. Dimension stone - Wikipedia

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    Surface of a marble slab from Sinj, Croatia. A variety of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are used as structural and decorative dimension stone. These rock types are more commonly known as granite, limestone, marble, travertine, quartz-based stone (sandstone, quartzite) and slate.

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