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Blue Mountain Minerals is a major source of reliable, local limestone for this region of California. Location is critical, because transportation can total as much as half the cost of delivered limestone, so businesses that need limestone typically locate as close as possilbe to the source.

Glass, Roofing, Farming:
Blue Mountain Minerals helps many farmers and businesses produce a variety of products at the lowest possible prices while creating thousands of jobs in their communities. In addition to hundreds of farmers, we supply limestone to eight glass manufacturing plants and five roofing companies.

Safeguarding Air Quality:
Powerplants rely on Blue Mountain Minerals as a local, reliable and inexpensive source of limestone to keep powerplants operating within their emission guidellines by reducing sulfur emissions and preventing acid rain. Blue Mountain Minerals supplies limestone to fifteen powerplants.

Our customers are local, but their products benefit people all over California.

More than 65 people work for Blue Mountain Minerals quarry and crushing plant in Tuolumne County, making us one of the county's largest employers. Our employees earn family wages with good benefits. Combined, our payroll and purchases of goods and services put nearly $6,000,000 into local cash registers. Multiply that six to ten times, which is an economic multiplier common for an industry like ours, and you can figure that our presence adds 400 to 650 jobs to the regional economy.