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Thesaurus Term/Concept: GANISTER QUARRY

Identifier 170989
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A quarry for the extraction of ganister, a hard fine-grained quartz-arenite (sandstone) cemented with silica, used in the manufacture of silica bricks commonly used to line furnaces.

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