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E. L. Smith Quarry, in or near Graniteville, Vermont and Barre, Vermont. This is the world's largest "deep hole" granite quarry. It produces Devonian Barre granite. Graniteville is home of its owner, the 1885-founded Rock of Ages Corporation, since 2016 part of Polycor, Inc., the largest producer of marble and granite in North America ...
A lounge chair using reclaimed wood. Reclaimed lumber is processed wood retrieved from its original application for purposes of subsequent use. Most reclaimed lumber comes from timbers and decking rescued from old barns, factories and warehouses, although some companies use wood from less traditional structures such as boxcars, coal mines and wine barrels.
In the 1830s the quarry was generating £2000 profits per year (equivalent to £186,792 in 2016). Turner's son took over as manager and renamed the quarry Dorothea, apparently after the wife of the landowner Richard Garnons. Profits began to fall in the 1840s, and in April 1848 the quarry was put up for sale, with 22 years remaining on the ...
Dinorwic quarry (/ d ɪ ˈ n ɔːr w ɪ ɡ / din-OR-wig; Welsh: [dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]; also known as Dinorwig quarry) is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig (formerly Dinorwic) in Wales.
The Penrhyn quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda, North Wales. At the end of the nineteenth century it was the world's largest slate quarry; the main pit is nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 1,200 feet (370 metres) deep, and it was worked by nearly 3,000 quarrymen. It has since been superseded in size by slate quarries in China, Spain ...
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The Cambrian quarry was a slate quarry, located to the west of Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, North Wales.There was some small-scale extraction of slate from the 17th century, but commercial extraction began in 1857, and the scale of operation increased from 1873, when the Glyn Valley Tramway opened, providing an easier route to market for the output of the quarry.
The quarry was owned by A. Hamilton Pryce, [4] who in 1935 leased it to Sir Henry Haydn Jones, owner of the Bryn Eglwys quarry near Abergynolwyn and the Talyllyn Railway that served it. There was some improvement during the late 1930s, with 140 workers employed in 1940, [ 2 ] but the Second World War brought further drops in production, with ...
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