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Shining a light on underground mining

Andrew Topf | May 5, 2010 | 3:33 pm

Venture into an underground aggregate mine and you might think you’ve entered Moria, the underground dwarf kingdom in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings. Aggregates Manager profiles the Sterling Materials mine in Kentucky. Read the article at http://www.aggman.com/feature-article-plant-profile/