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http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=18.095276&lon=-87.8738451&z=16&l=0&m=a&v=2
You can see the old quarry in the back of the shrimp farm.
Wow Cool google Earth
better shot
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=18.0929967&lon=-87.8738666&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
There is a very cool spring at the end of the little dead end road below the quarry.
and while your there this is the infamous midnight air strip that was a favorite for pilots for 30 years of drug running history next to some very cool mayan ruins.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=18.088438&lon=-87.8931409&z=17&l=0&m=a&v=2

If you can read this and make sense of it your better than me.
http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/Sedimentology-mazzullo.html
scroll down and look at the Basel Jones Air strip that the area.
give or take a quarter mile.

thanks elbert, very impressive, will make good weekend reading

save u some time

Ambergris Caye Limestone

The uppermost unit in the Airstrip well is 28 m thick, and consists of mostly white and light tan, porous limestones that generally coarsen upwards from wackestones/packstones to pack-stones/grainstones. Constituent particle size and the amount of corals and associated coralline algae, Halimeda, Homotrema and thick-shelled pelecypods and gastropods increase upwards. Of the total vertical section of ca 4Æ7 m of limestones that was compiled from exposures and excavated and/or dredged samples on and around Ambergris Caye, the basal 2Æ3 m correlate to the limestone section of the same thickness at the top of the Airstrip well (Fig. 3A). These rocks and the overlying 2Æ4 m of exposures on and around the caye are included within the Ambergris Caye Limestone to give it a total thickness of ca 30 m. Flores (1952) referred to exposures of coral-rich rocks along the north-eastern coast of Ambergris Caye (e.g. at Reef Point: Fig. 2) as the ‘Ambergris reef limestone’, from which the name of the present formation is derived.

I walked the strip a few months back and its pretty over grown, but i did find some 50gal fuel barrels in the brush to the side that still had a little fuel.
I think the shrimp farm used it for a while years back to fly out baby shrimp.
OH yeah I see that now ,looks like a pretty big rail gona need a big straw.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=18.088438&lon=-87.8931409&z=17&l=0&m=a&v=2

Elbert - where did your quote of a couple of posts back come from? I'm trying to work out what Æ means. The bit that I understand is most informative.

If there is no reliable use for the stone, why does he want to quarry it? I honestly do not understand why he would invest in this . He is talking about blowing stuff up. That can not be that cheap. Is there a value to him to open the airstrip? Are there developments up there that want an airstrip but do not want the political heat of applying for a permit?

Maybe the gasoline golf cart lobby is paying him to "pave" the way up north. Nothing spruces up a joint like a bunch of ugly americans on their golf carts.

http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/mayan/Sedimentology-mazzullo.html
peter its here at the bottom

I don't know enough about the shrimp farming/hatchery business to give a good answer. Why did the Nova Shrimp people dynamite the quarry behind the hatchery that is at the site now?
Fidel would probably know hes been in that business up there for a lot of years.
Lots of fresh water is involved in shrimp raising and their going to strike that fairly quick when they dynamite the quarry. the new quarry is next to the one Nova made for the shrimp hatchery.
The shrimp business is at that location because of the locations natural offerings (prob.water and cheap land). The materials coming out of the hole are not the objective. I wouldn't say they are worthless just not the motive.
You guys probably haven't been around long enough to remember the problems and concerns of what the shrimp farm has done up there.
READ THIS OLD REPORT
and see if this whole thing makes sense.
http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/eventsnova.html
maybe Fidel is banking on the islands short term memory loss problems and now hes chairman of the Ambergris Caye Planning committee that stopped him last time.
God I love this place :-)