' Includes riprap, refractory stone, railroad ballast, alkali, paper, asphalt
and fertilizer fillers, rock dust forcoal mines, mineral food, and other
uses.62 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
operations had outputs of less than 100,000 tons. 
 Stone.—Limestone was mined and crushed at 47 commercial and two Government—and—contractor
operations in 21 counties. Total production decreased 12 percent with commercial
operations furnishing most of the production. Major uses of the stone were
for concrete and roads, manufacture of cement and lime, and metallurgical
flux. 
 Dimension limestone was quarried in Franklin County for construction and
building stone. 
 Three firms crushed and ground marble in Talladega County for paint, putty,

rubber, plastics, roofing granules, whiting, and other uses; total production
increased 6 percent. 
 Moretti—Harrah Marble Co. quarried dimension marble in Talladega County
for rough and dressed building stone and dressed monumental stone. 
 Two firms crushed oystershell dredged from Mobile Bay for cement, concrete,
roads, and poultry grit; total production decreased 8 percent. 
 United States Steel Corp. and Enos Vann crushed sandstone in Jefferson County
for cement, foundry, and other uses; total production decreased 11 percent.

 
Table 12.—Crushed limestone sold or used by producers, by counties

 1966 1967 
County Number   Number   of Short tons Value  of Short tons Value quarries
  quarries 
Calhoun 1 293,613 $470,000 1 W WColbert 4 1,251,170 1,593,971 4 1,039,563
$1,310,578Culhnan 1 39,860 61,169 1 66,338 103,620Henry 1 3,327 5,420 1 W
WJackson_~~. 1 130,000 156,000 1 129,567 WJefferson 9 4,606,217 5,897,334
9 4,144,353 5,186,640Lee 1 W W 1 328,496 WLimestone 1 45,281 67,921 1 46,641
69,961Madison 4 2,329,479 2,155,255 4 1,299,807 1,272,390Marengo 1 321,930
222,100 1 W WMarshall 1 225,000 337,000 1 W WShelby 8 4,861,146 6,677,815
9 4,339,404 6,032,710Washington 1 746,870 515,300 1 W WOthercounties' 14
3,995,154 4,808,558 14 5,117,146 6,591,040 
 Total - 48 18,849,047 22,967,843 49 16,511,315 20,566,939 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Other counties." 
 ' Includes Bibb, Covington, De Kalb, Etowah, Franklin, Morgan, St. Clair,
and Talladega Counties, and counties indicated by symbol W. 
 
Table 13.—Crushed limestone sold or used by producers, by uses 
1966 
 
1967 
Value 
 
Value 
Use — 
————-— 
———————— 
Short tons 
Average Short 
tons Average 
Total 
per ton 
Total per ton 
Concreteandroads 10,370,282 $12,753,356 $1.23 8,786,749 $10,886,970 $1.24

Cementmanufacture 4,356,243 3,249,417 .75 3,832,549 2,969,314 .77 
Limemanufacture 981,059 1,647,459 1.68 1,044,617 1,709,182 1.64 
Fluxing stone 1,244,050 2,055,800 1.65 994,629 1,674,388 1.68 
Agstone 666,144 1,152,891 1.73 839,869 1,381,908 1.65 
Other uses' 1,231,269 2,108,920 1.71 1,012,902 1,945,177 1.92 
 Total 18,849,047 22,967,843 1.22 16,511,315 20,566,939 1.25