An upstate New York court accepted a mine manager’s guilty plea today to manslaughter in the second degree, a Class C felony. Anthony Valente, a mine manager at a Grafton limestone quarry, admitted to causing Darren Miller’s death in October 2022 by recklessly disregarding and overriding safety features of a crane Valente was operating, which resulted in a piece of…
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Permitting from South Carolina
According to the Times and Democrat, the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates has applied for permits to establish a limestone quarry and processing plant on Addidas Road, less than four miles southeast of the town of Eutawville, S.C. A subsidiary, Vulcan Construction Materials LLC, proposes to lease multiple tracts totaling 693 acres from a sister subsidiary called Vulcan Lands…
Read MorePermitting Update: Pennsylvania
Neiswonger Construction Inc., which operates the Maggie Lynn limestone quarry in Washington County, is hoping to start extracting the rock underneath it. The company is proposing to build an underground mine that would stretch for 337 acres in Deemston Borough, roughly the area of Schenley Park. It might take 30 years to extract all that rock, cranking out 250,000 tons…
Read MorePermitting Update: Virginia
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday greenlighted Carmeuse Lime and Stone’s proposal for a new limestone quarry in Clear Brook, ending months of debate surrounding the international mining company’s plan that was strongly opposed by some neighbors. On a 5-2 vote, the board approved Carmeuse’s application to rezone 392 acres from Rural Areas (RA) to Extractive Mining (EM)…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Limestone Trade Down 2.6% in September
Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3.4 million tons in September, a decrease of 2.6% compared to a year ago. Limestone cargos were below the month’s five-year average by 5.5%. Loadings from U.S. quarries totaled 2.8 million tons, a decrease of 2.4% from 2022. Shipments from Canadian quarries totaled 651,520 tons, a decrease of 3.5%. Year-to-date the limestone…
Read MoreThe Big, Small and Complicated – L&H Industrial’s Comprehensive Solutions
Built specifically to handle mineral processing equipment, L&H Industrial’s Tempe, Ariz., operation offers Design & Engineering, Manufacturing & Repair, and Field Services for Aggregate operations. With over 50 years of experience building solutions for the biggest machines on earth, there is not much they cannot support. So when a dolomitic limestone quarry in Oklahoma producing 3-million tons of raw throughput…
Read MoreCrabtree to Lead Aggregates Division at Erlen Group
The Erlen Group is a family of industrial companies focusing on aggregates, logistics and real estate. The Erlen Group operates the Springfield Underground, a 3.2 million sq. ft. network of subsurface warehouses. Although mining ceased and Springfield Underground in 2015, the Erlen Group operates three additional limestone quarries: Joplin Stone, in Joplin, Mo., opened in 1955. Westside Stone, in…
Read MoreRock Products Interviews New Young Leaders Chair Clay Albright
Rock Products: How did you get started in the aggregates industry?Clay Albright: The aggregates industry is in my blood. I’m the third generation in my family to own and operate our open-pit limestone quarry in Danville, Ky. The quarry has been in the same location since 1912 and was the ninth mine to be permitted in Kentucky. Currently it is the third…
Read MoreSinkhole Controversy
May 15, 2023 – In Knoxville, Iowa, Marion County officials and residents claim that a sinkhole may be the result of a Bruening Rock Products limestone operation, according to a final site investigation report by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS). The sinkhole is located in the east right of way of 135th Place, just south of…
Read MoreSection of Colorado Quarry Closed Following Rockslide
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has shut down a major portion of the Glenwood Springs limestone quarry operated by Rocky Mountain Industrials (RMI) in Glenwood Springs, Colo., following a rockslide incident, according to an article in the Post Independent. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Upper Colorado River District spokesman Eric Coulter said that a BLM geologist and inspectors…
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