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Pikes Creek · Luzerne County · Pennsylvania

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Pikes Creek Quarry is 2 miles from Pikes Creek, pulling construction sand and gravel, and #6 Bank and Wilkes Barre Materials 315 QUARRY aren't far behind.

Cut from the ground, so the noncoal rules reach it

That difference does not exempt it. Pennsylvania’s noncoal mining rules cover extraction directly from the ground, which a peat harvest is, so a large operation here is a licensed noncoal operator on the same footing as a quarry.

Those rules also cover extraction from waste or stock piles, pits or banks, which is why reclaimed coal refuse appears in this trade at all — and it appears close by. The #6 Bank lies about 10.0 miles south-east, the Glen Lyon operation about 11.2 miles south and the Loree silt basin about 12.2 miles east.

So one small valley carries a peat harvest, a sand pit and three coal refuse operations inside about twelve miles, each with a different load, a different season and a different kind of truck.

Fifteen miles to the nearest city of any size

Those permits matter more when the runs are long, and here they are. This place is about 14.8 miles from Wilkes-Barre, with White Haven about 12.6 miles off and Waverly about 13.3 miles from Scranton on the other side of the ridge.

It is not remote country, but it is not a district shuttle either. A load leaving here has real distance to cover before it reaches a main road network, and the townships in between each hold their own posting power.

The Chase Quarry about 10.3 miles east is the nearest aggregate operation of any size. Between it and the coal banks to the south, a truck based here has usually worked more than one commodity.

A peat load is bulky and light where a coal load is dense and short, so a truck that has done both shows body wear and driveline wear at the same time. Between the Glen Lyon operation 11.2 miles south and the Chase Quarry 10.3 miles east that combination is ordinary rather than odd.

  • A bulky light load fills a body without loading it, and around the Sweet Valley operation we see that pattern regularly.
  • We are a long way out.About 14.8 miles from Wilkes-Barre, which is why we often buy remotely and arrange the tow rather than sending someone first.

Between the Chase Quarry and the Loree silt basin about 12.2 miles east they turn up steadily.