Slate Manufacturing

Mining

Slate manufacturing begins with locating quality stone and creating a slate quarry. The raw material is removed using heavy equipment.

MFGTurner

Quarry view

Drew Turner, US Quarried Slate
Fair Haven, Vermont

 MFGGreenstone

Removing stone

Courtesy, Greenstone Slate
Poultney, Vermont
MFGGreenstone2

Heavy equipment used to move raw material

Courtesy, Greenstone Slate
Poultney, Vermont

 MFGMarcrow

Raw material evaluated, inventoried

Craig Marcrow, Vermont Structural Slate
Fair Haven, Vermont

Craftsman, cutting slate

 Splitting Slate

Craftsman, splitting slate

Trimming Slate

Slate trimming machine

Craftsman, punching nail holes
in slate

Slate inventory