Secret revealed: Open-pit mine proposed for Yadkin County site

Eight months after exploratory drilling began on a rural site in Yadkin County, a developer says his plans for the property include a 322-acre mining operation to extract materials used in construction and road-building.

The project would include a fully exposed, 61-acre extraction pit just a few hundred yards from West Yadkin Elementary School.

Jack Mitchell, president of a company called Three Oaks Quarry LLC in Winston-Salem, revealed his plans in a letter to neighbors of a 500-acre tract — northwest of the intersection of Old U.S. 421 and U.S. 21 near Hamptonville — that he said also could include residential development.

Mitchell said the company would mine deposits of stone, gravel and sand used to create aggregate, a key ingredient in concrete, asphalt and similar road-building and construction materials.

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(Winston-Salem Journal)