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Rock on: Students visit rock quarry on school field trip
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Sardis Enrichment School third-graders Luke Free, left, and Levi Stowers collect rock samples Friday morning from the Hanson Rock Quarry during a field trip. The students were learning about geology and made the trip to see how a quarry works and to learn the usefulness of mining granite.
A group of children, each wearing a blue hard hat, crouched at the edge of a puddle looking for unusual rocks inside of a 6-year-old pit mine operation Friday morning in Gainesville. Other groups walked around large granite boulders asking equipment operators how they use tractors and dump trucks to move the huge rocks from place to place. Five third-grade classes from Sardis Enrichment School took a field trip to the Hanson Aggregates, a rock quarry on Candler Road in Gainesville, to reinforce recent classroom lessons on rocks, gems and minerals.