Pyne Rock Corporation sells red rock that is great for roads, driveways, parking lots, foundations, or fill. We sell rock by the ton and is typically 1/3 the price of other gravel! The red rock gets its color because it is low grade iron ore directly out of the mine. Our red rock weighs about 3000 pounds per yard. Our Red Rock is a mixture of sizes whichs settles and compacts well to make great roads and driveways.
Pyne Rock is currently only open Thursday and Friday, but can be open other days if arranged prior.
Pyne Rock typically does not load pickup trucks due to the size of our loader.
Pyne Rock is a division of Moore Coal Co.
About
Pyne Mines History
The Pyne Mine was a vertical shaft iron ore mine operated by the Woodward Iron Company and located near the Lacey's Chapel community outside Bessemer, Alabama in Shades Valley.
Drilling began for the mine's 1,280 feet (390 m), concrete-lined vertical shaft in 1918 a few miles south of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Muscoda mines. The slope mines built near the ridge of Red Mountain were depleting the most accessible parts of the Clinton formation ore seams. Pyne was built over a "down dip" in the seam, beyond the lower extent of the Muscoda tunnels. Operations ceased after only a few years of production due to the post-war drop in demand. The shaft was left to flood and the surface works closed down. With the renewed demands of World War II the mine was reopened in 1942.
A 163 feet (50 m) tall headframe was erected over the shaft to operate two hoists, one for ore skips and another for men and materials, riding in double-decker cages. The hoist cables were fed from massive cable-drum winches located inside two red brick hoist houses situated directly behind the headframe. Nearby was an ore-crushing and screening plant and a plant for pressing the crushed ore into briquettes (built in the 1950s, now demolished).
Despite emerging sources for imported ore, Pyne was one of the most productive ore mines in the Birmingham District, removing as much as 1 million tons of ore per year. Innovative mining methods, custom-designed equipment and an efficient surface layout kept the facility competitive. The ore was originally loaded onto trains on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for delivery to area iron and steel furnaces, but later was trucked to Woodward No. 3 Mine for loading. When the mine reached a thrust fault which would have required enormous efforts to overcome, the decision was made to cease operations. The pumps which kept the shaft from flooding were idled and the shaft itself was capped off.
After the mine was closed the site continued to be used for the production of aggregate, made by crushing mine tailings from the site.
Pyne Mine. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved January 26, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyne_Mine
