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11Slate industry — The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a slate quarry or reached by tunneling in a slate mine . Common uses for slate include as a roofing material, a flooring material… …
12Slate — is a fine grained, foliated, , metamorphic rock derived from an original shale type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond …
13Slate (magazine) — Slate URL slate.com …
14Slate and stylus — The slate and stylus are tools used by blind persons to write text that they can read without assistance. [Alpha Chi Omega (1908)] [Shrady, etc al.(1902)] Invented by Charles Barbier and Louis Braille as the tool for writing Braille, [Lowell, et… …
15Slate waggon — Slate wagons (sometimes spelled waggons) are specialized types railroad cars designed for the conveyance of slate. The characteristics of this stone led to the development of small open cars that carried the slate in its various forms. These were …
16Slate Operations on the WHR — The original Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) owed its existence to the the narrow gauge railways/tramways built to serve commercial slate traffic from Slate Quarries and other mineral extraction operations.* Croesor Tramway, this was built to take… …
17Slate (turkey) — The Slate, or Blue Slate, is a breed of domestic turkey known for the slate gray color of its plumage. Lighter birds are sometimes called Lavender turkeys. Turkeys of the Slate breed may actually be any number of shades between pure black and… …
18Slate Islands — The Slate Islands are an island group in the Inner Hebrides, lying immediately off the west coast of Scotland, north of Jura and southwest of Oban. The main islands are Seil, Easdale, Luing, Lunga, Shuna, Torsay and Belnahua. Scarba, which lies… …
19Slate-throated Whitestart — Conservation status Least Conc …
20Slate Range (Alberta) — The Slate Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, located in Banff National Park, Canada. The range is named after slate, the primary composition of the mountains in the area.The Lake Louise Mountain Resort is on the southern slopes of …
