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Technically no. Marble and most other forms of stone are "quarried", though the process (especially for gravel) is much the same as an open-pit mining operation.
gravel base
In your lifetime, you use at least 1,000,000 pounds of stone,sand, and gravel.
depend on the stone used for the gravel.
The mining camp produces 5 stone.
Boulder, stone, gravel
Aggregate is the general name for a mixture of crushed stone, gravel, and sand.
Depends on what stone is being mined, and what it will be used for. In the case of stone mined for aggregates (gravel) equipment usually includes rock drills, front end loaders, conveyors, dump trucks, various crushers, and screening or sizing equipment.
This is called gravel
The context of your question is unclear. Virtually any stone broken into gravel-sized pieces will feel like gravel.
Pea stone is gravel that is about 1/4 inch in diameter (the size of a pea).
A crusher is a machine which pounds large rocks (or other materials) into finer rocks, gravel or stone dust. Large, powerful crushers are used in heavy mining, while smaller ones can be found in trash compactors.