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Dulcote Quarry
Dulcote Quarry, was a limestone quarry at Dulcote, near Wells on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry measures around from West to East and around from North to South, with an area of , which is surrounded by of woodland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.estatesgazette.com/propertylink/advert/dulcote_quarry-wells-3125413.htm )〕 The floor of the quarry is to above Ordnance Datum.〔
The site has been used for quarrying since the mid 19th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dulcote.com/webpages/quarries.htm )〕 The Foster Yeoman Company was founded at Dulcote, in 1923,〔 and later became part of Aggregate Industries. The site achieved an output of approximately 0.25M tonnes per year of Carboniferous Limestone, for general purpose construction aggregates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mendips/more_info/west_mendip_quarries_history.htm )〕 Much of the stone was moved on a branch line of the Great Western Railway by an independent company which became known as Mendip Rail.
A Geodiversity audit of the site was carried out in 2004, which highlighted the limestone strata and fossils identified.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Geodiversity Audit of Active Aggregate Quarries: Quarries in Somerset )〕 These include Carboniferous Limestone overlain by Triassic Mercia Mudstones and Sandstones with geodes, which were formed by siliceous mineral replacement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mendip.gov.uk/pods/documents/documents%5C015399_006%5Cforms%5CChapter%202%20Dulcote%20Quarry%20and%20the%20exisiting%20situation.pdf )〕
In 2007 the quarry was bought by the Kilbride group a subsidiary of Kilmartin Holdings, which itself became part of Hansteen Holdings. When the parent company went into receivership the part owning Dulcote survived and has put the worked out quarry site up for commercial redevelopment with outline planning permission for a price of £1.5million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.developmentlandsouthwest.co.uk/dulcote_quarry_for_sale.php )〕
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