Our aggregate comes from Gold Canyon, a tributary cut into the eastern slope of the Comstock mining district. The deposit is tailings — material left over from more than a century of lode and placer mining that was always valuable, and was never extracted.
Comstock-era operations ran from the 1860s through the mid-twentieth century. The wash piles that line the canyon today are the by-product of that work — millions of tons of well-graded alluvial material, sitting unused.
We hold the right to reclaim those piles. What was waste for a century is now our raw material: clean river rock, screened and sorted, sitting at the surface, ready to load.
Reclaimed tailings deliver the same structural performance as virgin quarry rock — with measurable advantages in sustainability, embodied carbon, and price.
No new quarry cuts. Reclaiming existing tailings leaves surrounding land untouched and reduces habitat disruption compared to opening a virgin site.
No drilling, blasting, or primary crushing required. Fewer processing steps means significantly less energy consumed per ton of usable aggregate.
Lower extraction overhead translates directly to better pricing. Quality aggregate at rates that virgin quarry operations structurally cannot match.
Washed and processed on-site to meet spec. Consistent gradation, minimal clay content — suitable for pipeline bedding, backfill, and utility trench fill out of the gate.
Every load that leaves the quarry goes through the same four-step reclamation flow. The work happens on-site at Gold Canyon — no off-site hauling, no third-party processing.
We sample the working face and verify gradation, fines content, and consistency before any material is moved. The face is mapped and the cut is laid out.
Material is fed through the wash plant, screened to spec, and rinsed to reduce clay content. The result is clean, multi-sized aggregate meeting pipeline and backfill requirements.
Finished material is stockpiled by grade, with each pile kept clean and accessible. Loads are pulled to spec at order time — no blending at the truck.
End-dump or belly-dump trucks, loaded and weighed on-site. Most Northern Nevada deliveries run same-day or next-day from the quarry.
Our hauling radius covers the active Northern Nevada construction corridor — USA Parkway, Dayton, and Carson City. Most jobs run with same-week delivery.
Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) and USA Parkway north to the Reno/Sparks metro. Same-day and next-day deliveries for high-volume jobs.
Local delivery within the Dayton Valley and surrounding Lyon County communities. Short haul, flexible scheduling, frequent repeat customers.
Direct deliveries into Carson City and the surrounding state-capital construction market. Competitive against Reno-sourced aggregate for in-city jobs.
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