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W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.
The Quincy Quarries is a 22-acre (8.9 ha) public recreation area in Quincy, Massachusetts, commemorating the site of the Granite Railway —often credited as being the first railroad in the United States. [1] The former quarries produced granite for over a century, leaving problematic excavations that ultimately were taken over and filled in to ...
Pikes Peak granite is a 1.08 billion year old Late-Precambrian geologic formation found in the central part of the Front Range of Colorado. It is a coarse-grained pink to light red syenogranite with minor gray monzogranite , and it has a distinctive brick-red appearance where it outcrops.
Mineralogy of the Pikes Peak Region. Pikes Peak seen from the Garden of the Gods. The Pikes Peak region is renowned for its rare mineral specimens. It is a favorite collecting area for amateur and serious rock hounds. Scientists from around the world come to Colorado to study the minerals of this region. Because the granite covers a large ...
Geology. El Capitan is composed almost entirely of a pale, coarse-grained granite approximately 100 MYA (million years old). In addition to El Capitan, this granite forms most of the rock features of the western portions of Yosemite Valley. A separate intrusion of igneous rock, the Taft Granite, forms the uppermost portions of the cliff face.
Barre granite. Barron County Pipestone Quarry. Basalt Cobblestone Quarries District. Bass Island Brownstone Company Quarry. Beaumont-Tyson Quarry District. Beaver Dam (Maryland) Big Run Quarry Site. Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries. Adolph Brower House.
Elephant Rocks State Park. Elephant Rocks State Park is a state-owned geologic reserve and public recreation area encompassing an outcropping of Precambrian granite in the Saint Francois Mountains in the U.S. state of Missouri. The state park is named for a string of large granite boulders which resemble a train of pink circus elephants. [5]
The name "Flat Rock" stems from the community's granite quarry. The granite quarry is the largest open-face granite quarry in the world, and has been mined continuously since 1889 by the North Carolina Granite Corporation. Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km 2), all land.