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re: Ever see marble mining?
Posted on 3/1/22 at 8:58 pm to idlewatcher
Posted on 3/1/22 at 8:58 pm to idlewatcher
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That dozer at the end was struggling
You mean the 992 wheel loader pushing the block and having the rear ended raise up in the process? That loader weighs over a quarter of a million pounds. That’s one of the largest wheel loaders we make. Only the 993 & 994 are bigger.
(The weird things some of you down vote on here baffles me. What’s objectionable about anything I said?)
This post was edited on 3/1/22 at 9:05 pm
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Posted on 3/2/22 at 6:31 am to Revelator
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Some people take marble mining for granite!
That’s a gneiss pun early in the morning
Posted on 3/2/22 at 6:54 am to Ramblin Wreck
I seen men get marble madness down in those mines.
Posted on 3/2/22 at 7:26 am to Ramblin Wreck
My hometown in north Georgia has a 7 mile X 1/2 mile vein.
This post was edited on 3/2/22 at 8:41 am
Posted on 3/2/22 at 7:29 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Its almost all Yule Marble and it is illegal to take rocks out of the area or at least it was.
It still is. That includes the marble dumped up and down the crystal river that was used for weight by the old trains.
Posted on 3/2/22 at 8:31 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Yule Marble is a marble of metamorphosed Leadville Limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado.[1] First discovered in 1873, it is quarried underground at an elevation of 9,300 feet above sea level—in contrast to most marble, which is quarried from an open pit and at much lower elevation
This post was edited on 3/2/22 at 8:34 am
Posted on 3/2/22 at 8:33 am to Ramblin Wreck
This popped up on my recommended videos. I've been wanting to watch it.
Posted on 3/2/22 at 8:52 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Its almost all Yule Marble and it is illegal to take rocks out of the area or at least it was.
Whoops. I may have taken a small fist sized piece after almost drowning in the Crystal River.
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