A Dycusburg landowner has applied for a quarry license to mine limestone near the Cumberland River at Paddy’s Bluff.
Grogan Properties, the group that purchased Paddy’s Bluff in 2008, wants to open a rock quarry two miles northwest of Dycusburg.
The property was formerly a popular ATV park.
Mark Hatcher, a partner with Grogran Properties, says the landowner is in the process of permitting the site and has already completed phase one of the application process.
The operation will use the open pit, or strip-mining method, to extract limestone.
There are three other limestone rock quarries near the site, but all of them are farther down river in Livingston County.
Hatcher said Grogan Properties is also applying for a permit to operate a barge-loading facility on the Cumberland River.
Application has already been filed with the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet to place fill in the Cumberland River Floodplain in order to accommodate the barge loading facility.
Hatcher said the company is currently looking for investors in the project in order to continue the process of opening a mine on the property.
“This will be a great opportunity for Crittenden County. When the mine opens, it will employ local residents,” Hatcher said.
That area along the Cumberland River is noted for its high-grade and large limestone deposits.
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