Quarry Mining Cabinet Photo Kenmuir Quarry At s Colorado …
Quarry Mining Cabinet Photo Kenmuir Quarry Red Rock Canyon, Colorado 1890. Operated in late 1800's early 1900's. Quarried Lyons Sandstone. This cabinet photo says At s No. 15 Dated September 12, 1890.
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The Edge of the Elks: Marble In the Middle - ADVENTR.co
When I reached Marble I followed the road along Yule Creek almost all the way to the Yule Marble Quarry, but stopped just short at the Yule Creek Trailhead so I could hike up to Anthracite Pass and Marble Peak.Although there were …
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Treasure Mountain (Colorado) - Wikipedia
The quality and durability of the Yule marble was questioned prior to the building of the Lincoln Memorial as was the recently opened quarry's ability to provide the quantity and size required for construction. Origin of name. The original name of the peak was Citadel Mountain. The current name came from an ill-fated French mining expedition ...
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Trails | Marble Tourism Association - Marble, Colorado
By the way, the views are absolutely spectacular at this point of the trail as you look across to Treasure Mountain, Whitehouse Peak, and the Yule Creek basin and Raspberry Ridge. However, just a couple hundred yards after the Buckskin Basin trail joins up with the Lost Trail Creek trail, the trail to Silver Creek and the back side of Arkansas ...
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The Edge of the Elks: Marble In the Middle
When I reached Marble I followed the road along Yule Creek almost all the way to the Yule Marble Quarry, but stopped just short at the Yule Creek Trailhead so I could hike up to Anthracite Pass and Marble Peak.Although there were …
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Colorado Yule Marble Quarry | SAH ARCHIPEDIA
In 1990 the revived Colorado Yule Marble Company, headquartered in Denver, took a seventy-year lease from the Vermont Marble Company, which had owned the main quarry since the old Colorado Yule Marble Company (1905) went out of business in 1941. This huge underground quarry has provided stone for more than seventy-five structures in the United ...
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About Colorado Yule Marble | martincooney.com
Colorado Yule Marble may be found only in the Yule Creek Valley, three miles southeast of the secluded Rocky Mountain town of Marble, Colorado, 9,300 feet above sea level. It was discovered in the spring of 1873 by …
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STATE ROCK OF COLORADO - WHITE YULE MARBLE - OPEN ROAD COLORADO
This white marble is only found in the Elk Mountains of Colorado at over 7,990 ft in elevation. If you have ever been to Washington D.C. then you have probably seen the White Marble National Monuments erected from the only White Yule Marble Quarry in the World. Because of its rarity and unique purity, Yule Marble was used in constructing and ...
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Yule Marble - Wikipedia
159 July 2011: Block of Yule Marble in the quarry, 1,300 feet (400 m) above and 3.9 miles (6.3 km) from the town of Marble, Colorado. The same geology …
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Colorado Marble — Colorado Stone Quarries
OVERVIEW. This one is a marble of metamorphosed limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado. First discovered in 1873, it is quarried today inside a mountain at 10,000 feet (3,050 m) above sea level, in contrast to most marble, which is ...
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Colorado Yule Marble Quarry - FM Forums
p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Colorado Yule Marble Quarry It has been my honor and pleasure to shoot inside the Colorado Yule Marble Quarry since 2003. The rights to the quarry have gone through several ownership changes and it looks like the guys in charge now will be there for quite some time and know exactly where they want to be in the quarry 10 ...
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American Marble - Sabine Hill
At its peak, the Colorado Yule Marble Company employed several hundred men at the enormous finishing mill, with a high percentage of them being skilled laborers from Italy. ... The most famous product of the Yule quarries was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, components of which were quarried in 1930 and 1931. The largest block, called the die ...
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Best hikes in Marble, Colorado - Hiking & Walking
Around Town. The town, founded in 1899, is famous for the Yule Marble Quarry located at an elevation of 9,500-ft. The quarry, first discovered in the late 1870's, produces a beautiful, flawless white marble that was used to build the Lincoln Memorial in 1916 and the Tomb of the Unknown Solider in 1931.
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Colorado Yule Marble Quarry - Ron Bailey
The Colorado Yule Marble Quarry is unique in that it sits at 9,000' feet above sea level just outside of Marble, Colorado, USA, and is completely landlocked. This presentation of select images marks the first time any of them have been made available to the general public. In the past, the images have been used by the owners of the quarry ...
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"Marble Peak" : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : …
Turn east onto a well-signed road leading to Marble on the north side of McClure Pass. Drive 6 miles to a stop sign in Marble. Turn right onto Quarry Road. …
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Yule Marble Quarry, Marble, Colorado | Visit colorado, Colorado …
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Colorado Stone Quarries — Vermont Quarries
Vermont Quarries now carries the beautiful white marble from it's sister company, Colorado Stone Quarries,, as part of it's stock supply of slabs and cut to size. Available in 2cm, 3cm and 5cm stock thicknesses. There are 4 selections of the marble: Calacatta Lincoln, Statuary, Golden Vein Extra & Aspen Gray.
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Whitehouse Mountain : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering - SummitPost
Whitehouse Mountain is the 1,325th highest mountain in Colorado, but the 12th highest elevener in Colorado. Whitehouse is located about two miles southeast of Marble, CO in the Elk Range of Central Colorado. Whitehouse Mountain rises 4,000 vertical feet above Marble, CO. Yule Marble Quarry is about one mile from the summit.
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Backcountry Skiing Colorado, Marble Area
Start atop Marble Peak (route 3.1.4). Head W for a short distance on the ridge behind the peak, then swing N and traverse the ridge for a mile over Mud Peak, Alley Peak and Noname Peak. Descend Noname Peak (route 3.1.6) to the …
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Colorado Yule Marble Company quarries (Colorado Stone Quarries), Marble …
Colorado Yule Marble Company quarries (Colorado Stone Quarries), Marble Mining District, Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA : REF:Deposit:: VANDERWILT, 1947, MINERAL RES. OF ...
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Colorado Scenery - Miscellaneous
Colorado Scenery Miscellaneous photos. Hanging Lake, located along I-70 in Glenwood Canyon. This hike is a little over a mile long, the last part is pretty steep. Mt. Sopris (elevation over 12,000 feet) is home to Carbondale, Colorado. I was lucky enough to live here for 4 years in the early 80's before the town tripled in size.
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Colorado Marble: American Stone Meets Italian …
Colorado Marble is prized for its nearly pure composition, light veining, and consistency of the pattern throughout the quarry formation. ... Colorado's Yule marble was first quarried in 1886 and was used heavily in …
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Wildflowers | Marble Tourism Association - Marble, Colorado
The best way to do that is to head to Marble during the wildflower season. From the valley floors where the creeks feed into the gorgeous Crystal River to the high montanes where the tundra is fed by snowmelt and thundershowers, Marble is blanketed with wildflowers during the summer. Blossoms start to emerge in mid-June and last through ...
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Colorado Yule Marble; building stone of the Lincoln Memorial
The Colorado Yule marble, quarried in Marble, Colo., is a very pure white marble, and it has been widely acclaimed for its quality and purity. This marble has been used for many prominent buildings; one of the most notable is the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., built nearly 80 years ago. Although most of the marble in the memorial appears to be in very …
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Marble Colorado – Western Mining History
Yule Marble Company Finishing Mill ca. 1913 At its peak, the Colorado Yule Marble Company employed several hundred men at the enormous finishing mill at Marble, with a high percentage of them being skilled laborers from Italy. …
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County and HCCA call for Marble quarry action
Trying to avoid a pattern within mining industry [ By Katherine Nettles ] Gunnison County has joined environmental group High Country Conservation Advocates (HCCA) in calling for action at the site of Marble's well-known Yule Marble quarry where Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc. (CSQ) has changed the alignment of Yule Creek and also spilled diesel fuel in …
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Historic Resources of Marble, Colorado, and Vicinity
Marble was founded in 1881 as part of the effort to quarry the extensive marble deposits of the Yule Creek area in Gunnison County. The town developed into a transportation and processing hub for the local marble industry. By the early …
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Parking – MarbleSki.org
Yule Marble Quarry road information for winter 2021-2022, regarding backcountry skiing and touring. ... Get set for ski touring Marble, Colorado during the winter of 2019/2020, information to enhance safety and help skiers have fun ski touring. ... Conditions, Parking, Quarry Road; Facts about Marble Peak avalanche path on Quarry Road, how ...
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Yule Pass Trail to Paradise Divide | Map, Guide
Colorado Tourism Office, 1625 Broadway, Suite 1700, Denver, CO, 80202, Phone: 800-COLORADO Directions from Carbondale: From Carbondale travel south on Hwy. 133 for 25 miles to the Marble turnoff. Turn left onto County …
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Best hikes in Marble, Colorado - Hiking & Walking
The town, founded in 1899, is famous for the Yule Marble Quarry located at an elevation of 9,500-ft. The quarry, first discovered in the late 1870's, produces a beautiful, flawless white marble that was used to build the Lincoln Memorial in …
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Main Home - Colorado - Stone Quarries
Colorado Stone Quarries are located in the upper Crystal River Valley, South of Carbondale and outside the town of Marble. After some years of siting dormant, the quarry was acquired by and reopened in 2011 by R.E.D. …
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Treasure Mountain Bible Camp
One of the favorite hikes is to where the famous Yule Marble Quarry can be viewed. This is where the marble came from that was used to make the Tomb of the Unknown Solider (in Arlington today) and the pillars of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. ... This part of Colorado has a bonanza of pristine mountain peaks and breath taking lush ...
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Reside in Colorado? Want to Hear Me Speak About …
At the peak of its success from 1905 through 1914 the remote Colorado Rocky Mountain town of Marble could boast a peak population of 1,500 residents, a movie theater, three hotels, 9 stables, 5 ice houses, and an …
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Colorado Yule Marble Quarry - mining machine
A Source Of Premium White Danby Marble 20140812. Aug 12 2014 Recently I went to Marble CO to visit the Colorado Yule quarry The site produces beautiful highquality white marble I had actually visited this quarry more than 15 years ago and a lot has changed since then The quarry has a storied past After several ownerships it was purchased by Italianbased RED Graniti in …
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Italians opening new portal to Yule quarry in Marble
MARBLE, Colo. – Work is under way to drive a new portal into the seam of unique white marble at Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc., in what the quarry's administrative manager, Kimberly Perrin, said is an important new development in the business."This is historic," she said. "It's the first new portal into the seam in more than 100 years.
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Listen to the Hill Truck — Use Radio Scanner – MarbleSki.org
9. Marble Banks (various bank sluffs, uncommon) 2.7 – 2.8 10. Marble Peak (road feature is "Lumber Curve," has not run big in years due to skier compaction) 2.8 – 3.0 11. Windy Corner (last sharp curve before you reach the quarry gate) 3.1 12. Portals (quarry)
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