Stone Quarries- an underestimated vital part of any community

AL Blair construction is a construction supplier and supplier of quality aggregates in the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario region.  They are a multi-task company providing services from trucking to custom crushing, stone quarries and pumped concrete.

Stone quarries are essentially an open pit where aggregates and building materials are extracted. It is almost like an open pit mine where stones and minerals are extracted. The products that AL Blair showcase are from their many stone quarries throughout eastern Ontario area. In these stone quarries they extract materials such as chalk, cinder, limestone, marble.  AL Blair Construction also extracts specialty products from stone quarries such as gabion stone, armour stone, ice chips, asphalt grindings and concrete stone.

Stone quarries are a very important part of our communities and the lives we live. In Ontario alone, there are mulitiple stone quarries that serve a unique purpose. Why are stone quarries so important? It is because according to statistics an average Canadian uses 14.0 tonnes of aggregates in their lifetime. The number is so high because we all use pumped concrete and materials that are extracted from stone quarries such as roads, airports, schools or anything else that requires crushed stone. We are using more aggregates from stone quarries than can be produced fast enough, they are in high demand for public infrastructure.

Stone quarries are so important because basically every job and every home in Ontario relies on stone, sand and gravel. The municipal, federal and provincial government to expand roads, highways and infrastructure uses with the aggregates that come from stone quarries. To be exact, 52% of all construction aggregates from stone quarries go to building, constructing and expanding new highways and roadways. There is many other uses for aggregates from stone quarries that make up the other 48% including concrete aggregate, chemical use, asphalt aggregate, mortar sand, pulverized stone and dimensional stone. 

It is a vital part of everyone’s lives, whether you live in an urban setting, a rural environment or the suburbs. Aggregates from stone quarries are a vital part of everyone’s lives, the buildings we work in, schools our children go to school to are all products of aggregates from stone quarries. Another use for aggregates from stone quarries are also used to purify and filter water believe it or not and are used in cosmetics as fillers. They are also used within your home for household products from toothpaste and paper to cleaning products and chewing gum.

More aggregates from stone quarries are used in rural communities while concrete pumping services are more common in the city and urban- centers. It is used for loads of things inside and outside of homes. Aggregates from stone quarries can be used for corning wear, vases, plates, windows, roofing, septic tanks, storm drains, foundations, in fields for fertilizer, for bricks and mortar, for decorative pieces around the house and walk way and so much more.

AL Blair Construction is an experienced construction supplier with several stone quarries that focuses on minimizing the impacts and maximizing the benefits that aggregates provide to Eastern Ontario and the Ottawa region.