SIC 1423 Crushed and Broken Granite

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SIC 1423

This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying crushed and broken granite, including related rocks, such as gneiss, syenite, and diorite.

NAICS CODE(S)

212313

Crushed and Broken Limestone Mining and Quarrying

The top crushed and broken granite producer in the early 2000s was the family-owned Luck Stone Corp. of Richmond, Virginia, with more than 900 employees in 2004. The company, founded in 1923 and now run by the third generation of the Luck family, was the twelfth largest producer of crushed stone in the United States, operating nearly 20 crushed stone and sand-and-gravel plants, and eight retail stores in Virginia and North Carolina. Its automated, noise-controlled crushers had the capacity to produce and ship over 600,000 tons of stone daily, as compared to its 1923 capacity of 100 tons produced manually by men with sledgehammers, loading mule-drawn...