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JSJJ388

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Secret revealed: Open-pit mine proposed for Yadkin County site

After eight months of uncertainty, a company executive says he plans to develop a mining operation with a fully exposed, 61-acre extraction pit just a few hundred yards from West
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This is just a few miles from the house. A lot of folks are up in arms because the property line is only a few hundred yards from the elementary school. Im not against them mining, but not gonna lie thats a little close for comfort. I honestly dont know enough about mining to form a solid opinion. Looking for any info good or bad about what we could expect if this happens.
 
JSJJ388 said:
Looking for any info good or bad about what we could expect if this happens.
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I've lived near 2 my whole life. You never know they are there until you need some gravel and go get it 🤷‍♂️


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JSJJ388 said:
journalnow.com

Secret revealed: Open-pit mine proposed for Yadkin County site

After eight months of uncertainty, a company executive says he plans to develop a mining operation with a fully exposed, 61-acre extraction pit just a few hundred yards from West
journalnow.com journalnow.com

This is just a few miles from the house. A lot of folks are up in arms because the property line is only a few hundred yards from the elementary school. Im not against them mining, but not gonna lie thats a little close for comfort. I honestly dont know enough about mining to form a solid opinion. Looking for any info good or bad about what we could expect if this happens.
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What's the concern? Dust?
Open pit mining is very different from the old school dig-a-tunnel business.
I don't know shit about this, except that people freak out about things they don't know anything about all the time.

We have one in our small town. Like troy you'd never know it aside from the big trucks rolling out occasionally.
 
I work at an open pit gravel mine. Have for 12 years. The feds regulate our airborne and water emissions heavily, they should be no concern. Dust is considered an emission. The only real concern should be the increase in heavy truck traffic once the place is in full operation. The benefits include good paying jobs and cheaper access to aggregate. I say shut it down, less competition in the state is good for me.
 
Chris_M said:
I work at an open pit gravel mine. Have for 12 years. The feds regulate our airborne and water emissions heavily, they should be no concern. Dust is considered an emission. The only real concern should be the increase in heavy truck traffic once the place is in full operation. The benefits include good paying jobs and cheaper access to aggregate. I say shut it down, less competition in the state is good for me.
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Folks main concern is noise and the fact that the property is a few hundred yards from the school. They claim environmental concerns, but Id wager thats just to garner support.
 
a few hundred yards depending on the property and how they setup the mine may not have any impact on the school with noise. knowing how things are regulated im sure they have done a traffic impact study as well as environmental and noise study (same thing has to be done for any large scale construction site). id suspect that data had to be provided on all equipment used on site and DB levels of all machines running at full power.
 
ghost said:
JMHO but the heavy truck traffic will be the biggest PITA. Dump drivers are right up there with log trucks IMHO. There is a reason the DOT pulls them all the time.
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Don't tell @rodney eppes !
 
We've got a quarry about a mile and a half away, and a school half a mile in the other direction. Like @CasterTroy said...you don't know its there unless you need it. Only two roads you can take to it and one is by the house. Dump truck traffic is definitely noticeable here but its not anything I worry about. Kids on the playground during PE love the trucks. About 10 of them lined up by the fence when I drove by yesterday giving the "honk" signal to the dump coming up the road from other direction.

Just saw the wedding venue literally right beside the one near @CasterTroy too....can't be too much of a nuisance if people gonna have an outdoor wedding next door.
 
jcramsey said:
...can't be too much of a nuisance if people gonna have an outdoor wedding next door.
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Maybe its just a really cheap venue :laughing:
 
Davie counties new high school was built directly across from a Vulcan open pit. They are also expanding it. They raised a bigger stink about the fella next door making large scale compost. Smells are worse than rock dust I guess.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Davie counties new high school was built directly across from a Vulcan open pit. They are also expanding it. They raised a bigger stink about the fella next door making large scale compost. Smells are worse than rock dust I guess.
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The compost caused 1000x more concerns. There was ZERO talk of the Vulcan pit. Like no one ever brought it up in design
 
Anybody else find it ironic that a school is complaining about traffic?
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Davie counties new high school was built directly across from a Vulcan open pit. They are also expanding it. They raised a bigger stink about the fella next door making large scale compost. Smells are worse than rock dust I guess.
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Reminds me of when the land across my parents sold and they built a bunch of 1 acre spec homes. There living in the country experience wasn't complete until the spring and we spread the fields with chicken shit fertilizer.
 
83oldyoda4x4 said:
Reminds me of when the land across my parents sold and they built a bunch of 1 acre spec homes. There living in the country experience wasn't complete until the spring and we spread the fields with chicken shit fertilizer.
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Chicken shit hit the fields around here about 2 weeks ago. Smelled glorious. My 5yr old ask be what that bad smell was. I told him "Yankee Repellent". My wife was not amused
 
I used to live 1/2 mile from there.
Rode dirt bikes and hunted there.
That place hasn't changed much in 40 yrs.
It got it's name because there is literally 3 big oak trees on the side of the road there.

EDIT: ALL of the articles are misleading trying to make it sound worse than it really is.
I thought the location sounded a bit fishy .... the "few hundred yards" from the school
just didn't sound right.
Googled it .... I guess a mile as the crow flies is quite a "few hundred yards"!
 
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Lizooki said:
I used to live 1/2 mile from there.
Rode dirt bikes and hunted there.
That place hasn't changed much in 40 yrs.
It got it's name because there is literally 3 big oak trees on the side of the road there.

EDIT: ALL of the articles are misleading trying to make it sound worse than it really is.
I thought the location sounded a bit fishy .... the "few hundred yards" from the school
just didn't sound right.
Googled it .... I guess a mile as the crow flies is quite a "few hundred yards"!
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Its about 1000 feet from the school to where the company says the edge of mine will be. They show it being right on the property line, behind the trailer park. Itll basically be beside the solar farm.

Side note, none of the oaks are there anymore. Hersel Poplin that does the engine work for sterling is kin to me.
 
JSJJ388 said:
Side note, none of the oaks are there anymore.
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o_O🥺😢 I did notice that the last time I was through there.

There seems to be some misinformation on where the pit will actually be.
From what I've read on other sites its a large tract of land with several hundred acres dedicated to be a buffer.
If what you're saying is correct there is practically no buffer on that side.
 
heres there site. Three Oaks Quarry

Here's some maps showing the plan. Now, these are from the lady leading the opposition to the mine, but one is supposedly from the company. Her property butts up directly against the mine.

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