Use 
District 
l~ 
District 
2 
District 
3 
 
Quantity 
Value 
Quantity 
Value 
Quantity 
Value 
Concrete aggregates and concrete products' 
— 
— 
— 
 
 
— 
 
 
 
 
— 
 
 
— 
 
 
—~ 
 
 
— 
— 
 
 
— 
 
 
— 
 
 
— 
 
 
 
 
— 
 
 
— 
 
 
—~ 
 
 
— 
500 
 
 
(' ) 
 
 
— (~ 
 
 
181 
 
 
256 
 
 
952 
 
 
864 
2,092 
 
 
(' ) 
 
 
— 
 
 
(3) 
 
 
582 
 
 
1,071 
 
 
3,808 
 
 
3,808 
2,238 
C') 
24 
(3) 
 
 
 
1,419 
 
 — 3,908 
 
3,545 
6,906 
 
(' ) 
162 
(3) 
 
 
 
4,217 
 
 — 11,773 
 
11,773 
Asphaltic concrete aggregates and other bituminous mixtures 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Road base and coverings 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fill 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unspecified:4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Actual 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
GEORGIA—l992  159TABLE 6 
 
GEORGIA: CONSTRUCTION SAND AND GRAVEL SOLD OR USED BY PRODUCERS IN 1992,

BY DISTRICT AND USE 
 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Estimated 
 
Total 
 
~ Tota'6 
 
~ ' Withheldtoavoid disclosing company proprietamydata; included with District
2 
~ 2lncludes plaster and gunite sands. 
~ 3Withheld to avoid disclosing company proprietamydata; included with '
Total.'

~ 4lncludes production reported without a breakdown by end use and estimates
for nonrespondents. 
~ ' One metric ton is equal to 1,000 kilograms or 2,204.62 pounds. To convert
short tons into metric tons, multiply short tons by 0.907185. 6ToW quantity
and total value in thousand metric tons and thousand dollars. 
 
 
Walker Refractories Co. , a subsidiary of Dresser Industries Inc., at Calhoun
and by Leco Corp. at Lawrenceville. Fused or vitreous silica is manufactured
by the fusion of very high-grade silica sand in various electric arc and
electrical resistance furnace configurations. 
 
Stone.—Crushed.—.Stone production is 
~ surveyed by the USBM for odd-numbered years only; data for even-numbered
years are based on annual company estimates. This chapter contains estimates
for 1990 and 1992 and actual data for 1991. 
Crushed stone was the second most valuable mineral commodity produced in
Georgia again in 1992. Estimated production of crushed stone in Georgia increased
6.4% to 44 million short tons valued at $244.2 million, a 9.6% increase.
Georgia ranked 1 ith out of 49 States in the quantity and 9th in the value
of crushed stone produced in 1992. 
The Mine Safety and Health Administration inspected 78 crushed stone quarries
operated by 25 companies in 48 of Georgia's 159 counties in 1992. There were
51 granite quarries, 16 limestone quarries, 10 marble quarries, and 2 sandstone
quarries. Counties with multiple quarries included Gilmer with 
seven, Pickens with five, and Whitfield with four. Five counties had three
quarries each and seven had two each. Companies with the most quarries were

Vulcan Materials Co. with 15, Hanson 
PLC (Davidson Mineral Properties and 
Stoneman Inc.) with 1 1 , Georgia Marble 
Co. with 8, Martin-Marietta Aggregates 
Inc. with 8, Blue Circle Inc. with 7, and 
Florida Rock Industries Inc. with 6. EPD granted mining permits to Vulcan
Materials Co. and Florida Rock Industries for planned crushed stone quarries
in Bartow County. The quarries will provide stone for the new Atlanta outer-belt
perimeter highway that will be built through the area. Florida Rock also
applied for a permit for a quarry, asphalt plant, and cement batch plant
in Jefferson, Jackson County. Granite was crushed to produce roofing granules
by Georgia Stone Quarries from its Banks County quarry and by Blue Circle
Aggregates Inc. from quarries at Lithonia, DeKaib County, and Douglasville,
Douglas County. 
 
Dimension.—Estimateddimensionstone 
production declined sharply in 1992 after posting large gains in 1990 and
1991. The quantity produced dropped 26.7%, 
from a revised figure of 216,938 short 
~ tons in 1991 to 159,093 tons in 1992. 
~ Correspondingly, the value dropped 
~ 38.3%, from $21.3 million to $13.1 million. Data for marble dimension stone
~ were not included in the published totals because only one company, Georgia
~ Marble Co., quarried dimension marble. 
Georgia continued to lead the Nation in the value of marble dimension stone
and in the volume of granite dimension stone quarried. Overall, it ranked
second in the volume and third in the value of all dimension stone produced.

The Elberton granite district retained its position as the world's leading
producer of granite monuments. In 1992, 101 firms, 33 of which operated quarries,
were members of the Elberton Granite Association (EGA). 
Southern Granite Co. Inc. completed a 6,000-square-foot expansion of its
Elberton finishing plant. Featured in the expansion was the installation
of a computer operated, fully automatic milling, grinding, and polishing
system capable of producing monuments continuously on a 24-hour schedule,
even during overnight hours when no one is working in the plant. 
The assets of Coggins Granite Inc. were