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'''Vulcan Materials Bessemer Quarry''' is a quarry and aggregates plant operated by [[Vulcan Materials]] at 1200 [[Vulcan Drive]], straddling [[Five Mile Creek]] west of [[Powder Plant Road]] in western [[Bessemer]]. The area was formerly a community formerly known as [[Parkwood]], which is also the namesake of the [[Parkwood formation]] of carboniferous shale which is mined and processed there.
'''Vulcan Materials Bessemer Quarry''' is a quarry and aggregates plant operated by [[Vulcan Materials]] at 1200 [[Vulcan Drive]], straddling [[Five Mile Creek]] west of [[Powder Plant Road]] in western [[Bessemer]].


The $2.1 million plant was developed by the [[City of Bessemer]] for lease to Vulcan Materials' [[Birmingham Clay]] division in [[1965]]. The arrangement was the first industrial plant created with public funds under the [[Wallace-Cater Act]]. The shales quarried there are processed under high temperature, causing them to expand, producing a porous, lightweight material used as aggregate in the production of concrete. Several ready-mix concrete plants operate in the immediate vicinity of the quarry.
The shales quarried there are processed under high temperature, causing them to expand, producing a porous, lightweight material used as aggregate in the production of concrete. Several ready-mix concrete plants operate in the immediate vicinity of the quarry.


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Latest revision as of 12:09, 12 February 2019

Vulcan Materials Bessemer Quarry is a quarry and aggregates plant operated by Vulcan Materials at 1200 Vulcan Drive, straddling Five Mile Creek west of Powder Plant Road in western Bessemer.

The shales quarried there are processed under high temperature, causing them to expand, producing a porous, lightweight material used as aggregate in the production of concrete. Several ready-mix concrete plants operate in the immediate vicinity of the quarry.

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