Secret revealed: Open-pit mine proposed for Yadkin County site
Eight months after exploratory drilling began on a rural site in Yadkin County, a developer says his plans for the property include a 322-acre mining operation to extract materials used in construction and road-building.
The project would include a fully exposed, 61-acre extraction pit just a few hundred yards from West Yadkin Elementary School.
Jack Mitchell, president of a company called Three Oaks Quarry LLC in Winston-Salem, revealed his plans in a letter to neighbors of a 500-acre tract — northwest of the intersection of Old U.S. 421 and U.S. 21 near Hamptonville — that he said also could include residential development.
Mitchell said the company would mine deposits of stone, gravel and sand used to create aggregate, a key ingredient in concrete, asphalt and similar road-building and construction materials.
Read more: https://journalnow.com/news/local/secret-revealed-open-pit-mine-proposed-for-yadkin-county-site/article_52cafcce-a3e4-11ec-a017-c36c1cad249e.html
(Winston-Salem Journal)
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