Bluestone | Melbourne's Quintessential Building Material
Bluestone originates from the ancient basalt lava flows characteristic of the Western Districts of Victoria through to Melbourne's northern suburbs. Indeed there is a definitive point in Melbourne around the Merri Creek at Northcote and Fairfield where these lava flows ended. There were bluestone quarries all around Northcote.
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The quarrying history beneath Victorian icons
Historical records tell us that many of Melbourne's "warehouse and dwellings" were built from bluestone and basalt sourced from Quarries Park in Clifton Hill. Victoria's Extractives Strategy Taskforce oversees the implementation of the Helping Victoria Grow: Extractive Resources Strategy, and Taskforce chair John Krbaleski said the ...
From molten lava to cobbled laneways: how bluestone shaped Melbourne…
Important traces of Indigenous knowledge and use of bluestone have also been discovered throughout Melbourne and elsewhere in Victoria. For instance, bluestone was used for an eel trap system ...
Bamstone bluestone
Formed over thousands of years at the Mt Rouse lava flow in south-west Victoria, the high-grade raw Australian bluestone material is meticulously extracted at the Bamstone-owned quarry …
Bluestone Gallery | Discover the Beauty of Victorian Bluestone …
Victorian Bluestone Quarries 410-422 Francis St, Brooklyn Melbourne, Victoria 3012 03 9314 4700 [email protected]
Victorian Bluestone Quarries | Melbourne VIC
Victorian Bluestone Quarries, Brooklyn. 334 likes. Victorian Bluestone Quarries – specialists in the custom creation of quality Australian Bluestone
Lethbridge, Victoria
Local bluestone was sourced from Lethbridge quarries, the shire hall in Bannockburn and the war memorial in Inverleigh have also used bluestone in their construction. Football, cricket clubs, and even a mechanics' institute were introduced to Lethbridge.
Ballarat Aggregate & Bluestone Quarry Products
At Walsh Quarries Ballarat we supply a range of grades of aggregate throughout regional Victoria, used for a variety of applications. Aggregate is the term used for blasted rock from a quarry that is crushed and screened to produce smaller sized material suitable for further processing within the construction industry such as fills, ready mixed ...
Tina Skliros
Kingsville, Victoria, Australia. 136 followers 127 connections See your mutual connections. View mutual connections with Tina Sign in ... Victorian Bluestone Quarries Personal Website Report this profile Activity On Monday, 18 March 2024, at ANZ's Melbourne headquarters, The Hellenic Initiative Australia (THI Australia) held its first in a ...
Hopkins Stone Quarry Panmure, Victoria.
As many major road and rail projects are underway in Victoria, there is an increasing need for quarry products. Hopkins Stone's high-quality products will include Class 2 and 3 road building material, an aggregate for road sealing and concreting, and crushed bluestone gravel for local farm tracks. Read More. Our Community.
Victorian Bluestone Quarries – Elite Publishing
Discovering Stone Magazine speaks with Tina Skliros of Victorian Bluestone Quarries about the company's award-winning stone, recent projects and its processing services. DS: Your quarry is located in Lara, relatively close to …
The new lives of old quarries
Development Victoria has been handing over the management of the Valley Lake estate to the City of Moonee Valley in stages. One large stage was delivered in 2017, with full handover expected by the end of 2022. ... Bluestone quarries once graced the site that today provides visitors with impressive views of the city it helped to build. At a ...
VBQ Products
Premium Quality, Custom-Made Bluestone Products. With one of the most advanced stone facilities in Australia, Victorian Bluestone Quarries (VBQ) offers flexible, bespoke …
Bluestone Paving at the Newmarket Saleyards
Bluestone is a popular name given to several different types of stone, coined to distinguish it from other more greyish basalts. Victorian bluestone is a basalt or olivine basalt, quarried from the vast basalt layer that covers Victoria from Melbourne in the east, to Portland in the west, and as far north as the Great Dividing Range. Deep outcrops of this rich basalt layer were first quarried ...
From the "Quarry to the Pavers"
Victorian Bluestone Quarries (VBQ) has refined the craft of stonemasonry over its 50 years in operation. From the "quarry to the pavers", we pride ourselves on continually evolving to ensure best practice bespoke bluestone production.
8 BEST Quarries in Stawell, VIC
Here at Yellow Pages, we compiled several listings of quarries near you. Contact them and book an appointment for your needs! View More. BW Civil & Construction. Excavation & Earthmoving Contractors, Ararat, VIC 3377. More info. Open until 6:30pm. Call. …
Case Studies | Stone Solutions Provided by …
Victorian Bluestone Quarries was commissioned by City of Melbourne to provide bluestone kerbing to create the separation. Bluestone kerbs were cut to the City of Melbourne standard: 300x300mm, diamond sawn in both straight and radial …
Dimension stone
All known dimension stone quarries, past and present, are shown on the map below. In general, a resource still exists at each site shown. The stones used most often in Victoria are bluestone, sandstone, granite, slate, marble, gneiss, and limestone. Bluestone dominates dimension stone production in Victoria. Bluestone
Malmsbury's Remnant Bluestone Heritage
In February 2024 Malmsbury Bluestone was officially designated a Global Heritage Stone Resource. Since it was first used in 1856, many of the local uses of the stone have been lost due to demolition and neglect, while others have a bright future. Join Malmsbury Historical Society on a history tour and learn about why Malmsbury bluestone is ...
Gosford Quarries Melbourne (Clayton South)
Our Gosford Quarries 30mm Sandstone Paving products are on par with Bluestone in price. They are a wonderful alternative to bluestone when considering any landscaping project where natural stone is a product of choice. In fact, the general price point for sandstone supplies, even though unique as a natural stone product, is comparable to Australian bluestone prices.
Catskill Quarries
Catskill Quarries is a wholesaler of Pennsylvania bluestone and Pennsylvania fieldstone products. Services. Shipping on our trucks or yours; We will deliver partial loads (LTL) ... At Catskill Quarries, you will be sure to find what you are …
Victorian Bluestone: a proposed Global Heritage Stone Province …
If the bluestone used in pavements and drains is also considered, Victorian Bluestone could be described as Australia's most prominent infrastructure heritage stone. Bluestone use in Melbourne dates from the 1840s, in the other states of Australia and in New Zealand from 1873, with international interest from Asia between 1860 and 1880.
Malmsbury bluestone and quarries : Finding holes in history …
Malmsbury bluestone was used widely from 1856 in buildings in Victoria, throughout Australia, and in New Zealand. It features in many structures listed on heritage registers, yet its presence is barely recognised. This largely results from the stone quarries, buildings and the men who laboured with it being absent from modern Australian ...
ASQ Allstone Quarries
ASQ Allstone Quarries is a leading supplier of crushed rock, sand, gravel, and other quarried products in Victoria. We offer a wide range of products and services to meet the needs of our domestic, commercial, and industrial customers. ... Allstone Quarries operate numerous sites predominantly in Victoria. With a highly skilled team and the ...
Tiliqua Bluestone Melbourne
Bluestone is one of the more widely known and versatile natural stone products. Historically extracted from Victorian quarries as well as throughout the northern hemisphere, it's used extensively around Melbourne and is seen in iconic inner …
Victorian Bluestone Quarries
Victorian Bluestone Quarries in Lara, VIC, 3212. Business contact details for Victorian Bluestone Quarries including phone number, reviews & map location - TrueLocal
Wee Jasper Stone
The quality of our product is attributed to the unique formation of the quarry, producing bluestone exclusive to this quarry site. Our bluestone products feature in a range of public and private works in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The products consist of Bookleaf, Flagging, Walling Rock and Boulders.
Discover our Australian Made story
The volcanic lava flow of Mount Rouse journeyed down the mountain to the coast of Port Fairy in Victoria's south-west, resting in place for thousands of years as it formed to create Australian basalt bluestone, a stone equal in both strength and natural beauty. This rich basalt stone source was identified by Don and Yvonne Bartlett in 1975.