From:
Ken Barnes <barnestrav@zzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:10:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:
buying stone direct from quarries
In my experience most of the cost/value of stone is
transportation/equipment. If the stone is of the type that can be
plucked off the ground with little equipment needed for mining then it
seems to run $10 to $25 per ton if I bring my own truck and crane to
load it. If I need their loader it goes higher. As mining requires
more equipment the cost goes higher. The stone itself has very little
value, it is the cost of buying, maintaining and staffing the equipment
that adds up. Dimensional stone cut from inside a quarry with
expensive equipment is going to cost lots more than granite river
boulders pushed to the side of a gravel operation because they don't
want to spend the money to crush them.
Visiting quarries is such great fun. I can easily bring home 10 times
as much stone as I can carve in a typical year. Some day the
archeologists will excavate my studio and wonder why there are all
these stones collected in one place with only a few indications of
scultpure...
Ken Barnes
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