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Just realized the new quarry near my town is pulling from a formation that's only 50 feet thick.
Heard a guy at the diner say they'll hit the bottom in under a year, which means all that specific sandstone will be gone for good.
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johnson.willow6mo ago
That seems like a pretty short timeline. Maybe the formation runs deeper than they think.
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jakemason6mo ago
Oh man, my buddy found something way deeper last year.
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lucas_grant835mo ago
Wait, hold on. That timeline actually sounds about right. Some of these old mines go down hundreds of feet in just a few years of digging. I saw one where they hit a major vein at 80 feet, and within eighteen months they'd blasted and dug down past 300. The rock gets harder the deeper you go, but when there's money to be made, they find a way.
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