Yesterday we took a trip with Caroline's Girl Scout troop to a Quarry that is just down the road from our house. It was a really cold day for GA standards (about 28 when we went). Thankfully their bus that they use for tours wouldn't start in the morning (and it didn't have heat) so we got to drive around in 4 different trucks that had heat and get a really up close look at the whole Quarry. It is a granit quarry that they have been mining for about 30 years and it's estimated that they have at least 75 years more in reserve. It was a very informative field trip and at the end of it some of the employees grilled hotdogs and had lunch ready for all of us. Here are some random pics from the day...
The big pit that they are currently working on.
One of the loaders. They run 4 loaders a day and take the large rock up to the crushers where it gets broken down into over 11 different sizes from 1 foot rocks, to sand.
Caroline and Sophie
From the bottom of the pit looking up.
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