List of Quarries in Georgia & Quarry Links,
Photographs and Articles
- Macon, Georgia – Schofield-Burkett Construction
Co. (The following information is an advertisement
in Pit and Quarry: Sand – Gravel – Stone,
magazine, December 1921, pp. 31.)
Schofield-Burkett Construction Co.
Macon, Georgia
The Schofield-Burkett Excavator
Is Your Cost of Pit Production Too High?
A Schofield-Burkett Excavator will hold your cost of pit production to the lowest level. We guarantee results on the particular type of cable excavator best suited to your location. We make excavators of any capacity up to six yards. Any of them can be operated with a laborer or two, at a minimum of cost and practically no cost of upkeep. They have proved successful in many places where other types of machines had failed. Perhaps we can help you. Get in communication with us and describe your local conditions. Our expert advice is had for the asking.
Write today for Catalog No. 30.
- Macon & Birmingham Railroad, Meriwether County,
Georgia – the T. B. Tigner Quarry – Photo-micrograph
of Hornblende-Gneiss (Granite), from A Preliminary
Report on a Part of the Granites and Gneisses of Georgia,
Bulletin No. 9-A, by Thomas L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist,
Geological Survey of Georgia, 1902, pp. 48.
Plate IV. No. 2. Photo-micrograph of hornblende-gneiss (amphibolite), from the T. B. Tigner Quarry, on the Macon & Birmingham R. R., Meriwether County, Georgia, x 74. 
- Madison – Oglethorpe – Elbert
Area, Georgia – Map
of the Oglethorpe-Madison-Elbert Granite Area (Granite),
from A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Granites and
Gneisses of Georgia, Bulletin No. 9-A, by Thomas
L. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Geologist, Geological Survey of
Georgia, 1902, pp. 200.
Map of the Oglethorpe-Madison-Elbert Granite Area of Georgia. 
- Madison County, Colorado – the Royalty Granite Corp. Granite Quarries (Granite). In 1995 this company was operating two granite quarries in Madison County. At that time the company headquarters was in Carlton, Georgia. (From United States Geological Survey, "Mineral Industries Surveys - Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995," prepared in January 1997.)
- Marble Bluff, Gilmer County, Georgia – Microphotograph
of Marble from Marble Bluff (Marble), from A Preliminary
Report on the Marbles of Georgia, Bulletin No. 1, by S.
W. McCallie, Assistant State Geologist, Geological Survey of
Georgia, 2nd ed., 1907, pp. 100. (This book is available on
Google
Books – Full View Books.)
Plate XXXIII. No. 4. A microphotograph of marble from Marble Bluff, Gilmer county, magnified fifty diameters. A moderately fine-grained marble, with small scales of mica, as inclusions. 
- Georgia – One of the 18 Georgia Marble Quarries & Marble
Quarry Equipment (Marble) (from The Story of Georgia Marble,
no date of publication, pp. 2)
One of the eighteen Georgia Marble quarries (pp. 2) 
Air pressure Drills cut channels in the marble (pp. 3) 
Huge derricks lift the quarried blocks of marble (pp. 4) 
One of a battery of one hundred gang-saws (pp. 6) 
Rubbing beds where preliminary smoothing is done (pp. 7) 
(1) Grooves & Beveled edges are cut by carborundum wheels, (2) Urns, vases, small columns, balustrades, are turned on lathes (pp. 8) 
(1) Sand-blasting cuts the cost of incised carving, (2) A skilled sculptor with air-chisel follows his plaster model (pp. 9) 
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