quarry

“Rhoda the unflappable,” as Leonie thinks of her, makes short work of locating her quarry in a run-down villa on the small Maltese island of Gozo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It comes after a blast at another quarry six miles away forced people to flee their homes as a torrent of water flooded them.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

It put $75 million into the stock of Perpetua Resources, a mining company that is extracting gold and antimony from an abandoned quarry in Idaho.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Francis Ngannou dropped out of school to work in a sand quarry at 10 years old and illegally migrated from Cameroon to France to pursue boxing, and went from homeless to heavyweight champion.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

Clever Fin-Kedinn: throwing his net wide, then tightening it around the quarry.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The Welsh government said it had received the letter but as the responsibility for the regulation of active mines and quarries lies with the UK government, it couldn't comment.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Number two was Vulcan Materials, which operates rock quarries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

When the FTC first moved against this practice with a 1973 rule, its quarries were 72 book clubs and four record clubs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

Ms Armerio points to being able to drive to Tuscany's stone quarries from her company's base on the coast of Liguria if she needs to order marble.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

We coasted by the entrance to Halibut Point State Park where, some nights, Fred’s sisters swam in the quarries.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Most of the Aravallis lie in Rajasthan, and a quarter of the state's hills have been quarried, a 2018 Supreme Court-constituted committee found.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

Unlike the hard beach stones used at the nearby Neolithic village of Skara Brae, the stones used in the Ness buildings were quarried.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

Most of the material will be hauled away in dump trucks, which will make thousands of trips to return the rocks and earth to the original 37-acre pit where material was quarried for dam construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024

According to Mega Cavern, enough limestone was originally quarried out to rebuild all three pyramids of Giza.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Other evidence, however, is necessary, for it is known that Michelangelo did not carve all the marble blocks which were quarried for him and which bore his mark.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

“It builds on our core quarrying competency, expands our geographic footprint and immediately establishes Martin Marietta as the leading national producer of lime solutions,” he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Jobs connected to mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction also saw strong wage growth, according to the analysis.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Nant Gwrtheyrn, the National Welsh Language Centre, which itself occupies what was once a small slate quarrying village, is a short distance down the coast.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the deadly blast happened in a building dedicated to making “boosters” – charges used for mining, construction and quarrying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Returning to the village late in the day, with her baskets and belly full of apples, Alyce cut through the manor field, near where the villagers had dug a pit for the quarrying of gravel.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman