by Admin | Jan 28, 2025 | Time Travel
Go back in time with us as we dive into the Amador County newspaper archives from the late 1800’s and throughout the 1900’s and see what they were saying about the kaolin clay deposits here in the Ione area, and how they still relate to us and our operations today!
The mineral reserves in Ione, CA are unique and vast, as well as an extremely important part of our everyday lives. The January 2025 Time Travel Tuesday excerpt comes from the November 13th, 1975 issue of the Amador Ledger newspaper when a pipes and ceramics company called Interpace Corp inhabited the Ione mineral reserve. The article describes the construction of environmental control systems at several Ione mineral locations. |
The article first mentions that local Harley Kreth completed the excavation and recirculation ponds in preparation for construction of the environmental control systems. Harley Kreth was the founder of Kreth Inc., a local and family-owned Ione construction company, founded in 1946. According to their website, “Harley drove that dozer all over Amador County doing whatever work he could find, building up his business to the point where he could begin mining and selling clay in 1969.” The purpose of the installed environmental control systems was to “eliminate the discharge of dust particles” and use a recirculating water pond to conserve water “so that the only water loss would be through evaporation.” |
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The front page of the November 13th, 1975 issue of the Amador Ledger newspaper, where the above excerpt was clipped from.
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