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Dimension stone is
natural stone or rock that has been
selected and
finished (e.g., trimmed, cut,
drilled or ground) to
specific sizes or shapes. Color...
- A
quarry is a type of open-pit mine in
which dimension stone, rock,
construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or
slate is
excavated from the ground...
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spectrum of
dimensional stones that
include granite, marble, sandstone, limestone, slate, and quartzite, in
various parts of the country. The
stone industry...
- uses
large machine-cut
dimension stone blocks with
precisely defined dimensions to
rapidly ****emble
buildings in
which stone is used as a
major or the...
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specifically the
dimension stone trade, the term
marble is used for any
crystalline calcitic rock (and some non-calcitic rocks)
useful as
building stone. For example...
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surface for
further refinement. A
sawyer stonemason cuts
these stone blocks into
dimension stone, to
required size with saws. The
resulting block if ordered...
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different chemical composition.
Granite has been
extensively used as a
dimension stone and as
flooring tiles in
public and
commercial buildings and monuments...
- of
natural stone used for
decorative purposes in
construction and
monumental sculpture produced in
various countries. The
dimension-
stone industry classifies...
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mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk,
dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. The ore must be a rock or mineral...
- mid-19th
century with the
final dimension stones coming out of
Independent in 2006,
although some
stocks of
Portland stone block still remain. Coombefield...
