Dulcote Quarry

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Dulcote Quarry

Dulcote Quarry, grid reference ST565445 is a limestone quarry at Dulcote, near Wells on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.

The Foster Yeoman Company was founded at Dulcote, in 1923 and the quarry now measures around 600 m from West to East and around 350 m from North to South. It now has an output of approximately 0.25M tonnes per year of Carboniferous Limestone, for general purpose construction aggregates. A Geodiversity audit of the site was carried out in 2004.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Dulcote Quarry, Dulcote, Nr Wells. Geodiversity Audit of Active Aggregate Quarries: Quarries in Somerset. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.

[edit] External links

• Mineral data for this quarry from mindat.org

[edit] See also

• Quarries of the Mendip Hills

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Coordinates: 51.19805° N 2.62395° W

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