Ledger photo by Mike W. Ray A front-end loader dumps raw material into a specialized machine that makes stone riprap – a pile of which is in the foreground – at Dolese’s Richards Spur quarry near Lawton.
COVID pandemic affected mining in 2020
Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY – The state Department of Mines has requested a “standstill” appropriation from the Legislature, at least in part because of a downturn in the mining industry last year, agency director Mary Ann Pritchard told House and Senate budget writers recently.
Thursday, January 28, 2021