Empire State Building Quarry

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Rock quarry where the limestone for the empire state building was mined. The Empire State Building is composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite.

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Coordinates:   38°55'3"N   86°31'20"W

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  • The vast piles of rubble are produced when rough rock from quarrying is trimmed to finished dimensions. Upwards of 90% of the rock may have to be wasted.
  • That depends on your definition of "wasted' since much of the leftovers are used as fill in other construction projects. Was 80% of the chunk of granite Michelangelo used to carve "David" wasted? Not to the rest of the world.
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