Just a few yards from where workers blasted a pit that yielded as much as 200 tons of stone per day, a short span of marble arches over a roaring brook to form the only natural marble bridge on ...

Sloppy” Floyd State Park in Georgia, the Marble Mine is a stunning blend of natural beauty and industrial history. In this video, we hike to the old mine entrance, explore its reflective pool and ...

• Mine & Quarry Volumes 1-5 by Sullivan Machinery Company “Marble Quarrying in Arizona” • Paige, Sidney, Marble Prospects in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. 1909. Bulletin - United ...

The marble quarries of the Apuan Alps float 3,200 feet over northern Tuscany, blindingly white landscapes set to the soundtrack of deafening excavation equipment. “It is a monstrously beautiful ...

A mining or quarrying operation supporting and employing wide swaths of a community is hardly unique in Northern New York – think of marble in Gouverneur, or iron ore in Benson Mines.

They're surrounded by natural beauty and both have floating docks to enhance ... It's quite steep in places. Mead's Quarry was a marble extraction quarry that eventually became a swimming hole in Knox ...

(Perspective view of the Björkdal Mine looking towards the SW highlighting the interaction of the veining (Red), marble (Blue ...

While many may think of Italy or Greece when it comes to marble, some of the world's purest and whitest is found in Alabama. About 45 miles southeast of Birmingham is what's known as the Alabama ...