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In December 2020, Boral sold Midland Brick to the Buckeridge Group of Companies. [10] This followed Boral selling its bricks business on Australia's east coast in 2016. In April 2021, Boral divested its plasterboard business, completing the process with the sale of its 50 per cent interest in the USG Boral joint venture to Knauf for US$1 ...
1991 – The operating plant was old and getting less efficient and the production of cement ceased in November although the limestone quarries remained open, and some crushing equipment, for supplying the cement works at Maldon. [22] 1992 – Blue Circle Southern Cement taken over by Boral.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula, a Los Angeles County area that juts into the Pacific Ocean, shifted around 16 inches toward the ocean during last fall, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
The 38,000-acre Borel fire in Kern County has leveled the tiny, historic mining town of Havilah. "We lost everything — it's all gone," Havilah resident Sean Rains told The Times on Sunday.
As of June 1914, the quarry produced an average of 2500 tons per day. Much of the rock is a hard, bluish, Franciscan metamorphic sandstone, alongside shale. [5] The main quarry bowl is approximately 1,800 feet (550 m) wide from west to east, and 800 feet (240 m) wide from south to north, and has a maximum depth of 250 feet (76 m) below sea level.
An evacuation order has been lifted after a lithium-ion battery fire broke out at a power plant facility in Central California Thursday night, officials said Friday. “In an abundance of caution ...
Plaster City, California is a company town with a large gypsum quarry and plant owned by United States Gypsum (USG) [1] in Imperial County, California.It is located 17 miles (27 km) west of El Centro, [1] at an elevation of 105 feet (32 m), a two-hour drive south of Palm Springs, or a 90 minute drive east from San Diego.
Bronson Canyon is located in the southwest section of Griffith Park near the north end of Canyon Drive, which is an extension of Bronson Avenue. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a quarry, originally named Brush Canyon, for excavation of crushed rock used in the construction of city streets–carried out of the quarry by electric train on the Brush Canyon Line. [1]