Marble Quarry Western Australia

Marble black 84 hectare lease contains a very large reserve of black marble and also some orange coloured marble.

Marble quarry western australia.

These quarries currently produce the verde austral garnet ice and fraser range black granites. Dimension stone group australia dsga own and operate high quality granite quarries at fraser range near norseman western australia. Cairns marble australia pty ltd 94 cook street portsmith cairns queensland australia 4870. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.

61 7 4035 2212 email. Dimension stone in western australia volume 2 dimension stones of the southern central western and northern regions. The history the marble quarry is located 55 klms from greenvale in north queensland australia and is privately owned and operated by a family concern. Marble is quarried at maroonah in western australia.

From raw marble blocks direct from the quarry to polished slabs and marble tiles quarried cut and finished to any specification. 61 7 4035 2211 fax. For practical purposes this list also contains stone marble and other quarries. Marble quarry operators look for natural joints in the rocks when extracting it from the ground.

From the information gathered there seems little doubt that the longreach quarrying was the first marble quarry to be worked in australia. We are passionate about australian natural stone and are continually exploring and testing new areas and leases throughout australia to share with the world some of nature s best artwork. As of october 2012 there were 405 operating mines in australia. Specialising in the quarrying of exceptional dolomitic marble in the pilbara region of western australia stone dimensions australia pty ltd is a family owned and operated company established in 2004.

They must remain extremely careful about where they place the most strain so as to not shatter the stone so that when it is free they can either split it or cut it to the desired size. This list of mines in australia is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working defunct and planned mines in the country organised by primary mineral output. They have been in the mining industry since 1958 mining precious and semiprecious stones in australia. The remarks of lang indicate that the quarry was operating in 1833 finished samples made their way to england in 1835 and mitchell s remarks suggest it was still operating about 1836.