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Saturday, October 25. 2014

Marble harvesting

We have seen plenty of marble quarries up on high hills around Italy and in Sicily too.


Here's an up-close view (video)

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:01 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Marble harvesting is done differently in Marble, Colorado. No sunshine in the pit, a lot of water too. The stone is up high around 10,000 ft. and in the side of the mountain. Once when I climbed up we had to scramble over several avalanche chutes as we climbed in the early spring. (1985) maybe. The Marble is just the purist white I have ever seen. Hardly a streak anywhere. It out does snow at high altitudes. The marble for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was harvested there.
#1 annieoakley on 2014-10-25 21:48 (Reply)
Some of those hand signals are the same that I learned in crane school in the USA. I suspect that there are specialized signals for backhoe/excavator operators that are standardized also.
#2 Douglas2 on 2014-10-25 23:39 (Reply)

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