I worked at a Rock Quarry in Georgia owned by Vulcan Materials years ago. It was like 30 miles from Columbus Ga. I was a welder and over all repairman for them. I worked all night fixing things that needed repairs. Belts, Shuts, Trucks, etc. etc. Rocks wear 1/4 and 1/2 sheets of steel down pretty quickly.
I went to work at 5 pm and checked things out to see what repairs needed to be done. The quarry shut down at 6 pm. me and a couple other guys had till they started them up again at 7 am to fix things. Usually we finished things by 2 or 3 am, but there were time the Quarry could not start up till 10 am or even noon if their was a can of worms we discovered.
Anyway, these places have workers 24/7. I know that if I was down inside one of the shootes closing off a whole that allowed different sized rocks to mix, I would be screwed the moment that landslide happened. It would take me 15 minutes just to get in and then out. I was the smallest guy in the crew and thus I got all the fun of climbing inside the difficult places.
The horror stories I could tell about those times.
If I were the workers, I be for demanding an increase in my life insurance policy funded by the company.
Interesting gig you had.
Mining operations ceased at this site as soon as they saw a prob.
I’m curious - what do they do with all the dirt dug up from a mine? Does it just get put around to build the roadways for trucks to come in and out of the quarry, or is it carted off somewhere?
Looking at the sat imagery, I see a big hole and wonder where the dirt went. It couldn’t have been all useful stuff.