quarry

While power plants and oil refineries have been hit, data centers and internet facilities are becoming the latest quarry for drone and missile strikes — and not just in Europe.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

Barlinnie was known for being a notoriously tough prison, where prisoners carried out hard labour, breaking rocks from a local quarry.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Although the quarry was discovered in 1992 and excavated through 2019, many of the fossils recovered there had never been formally described and remained largely unknown to science.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Lee Heyes jumped into a quarry when he was 15 after he realised the older teen had got into difficulty.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

As the fire grew, it lit the inside of the barn so that for the first time the soldiers could also see their quarry in the gaps between the slats.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The Texas-based company said Tuesday that Virginia quarry operator Luck Stone will expand its use of autonomous haul trucks to two additional quarries following an 18-month autonomous hauling pilot at its Bull Run, Va., operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

On another nearby property overlooking an ancient sea wall, excavations revealed two stone quarries "one Roman and the other Phoenician", she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

The site contains multiple fossil quarries that have been excavated for decades and continues to yield exceptionally preserved specimens from the Late Triassic.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026

Because my weekends often take me east to nurseries, rock yards and quarries, I usually end up at Boston Lobster, my favorite place to eat dinner in Alhambra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025

Even the base of the Statue of Liberty was made of granite mined from Cape Ann quarries.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The remains attributed to Samuel will be laid in a white sarcophagus made from marble quarried in the Prilep region of North Macedonia, public broadcaster BNT said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Local artists, with easy access to Carrara marble quarried just down the coast, created thousands of sculpted scenes that by turns commemorate, re-create or just refer to the dead in towering dioramas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Twelve massive chunks of white stone were quarried there, transported in their raw state across the border and piled in six pairs adjacent to a Desert Hot Springs wind farm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

The military, who are behind the train's construction and operation, told him he can return to the quarried land after the project is complete.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023

They lit a small fire down under the gnarled roots of an old pine, that hung over a shallow pit: it looked as if stone had once been quarried there.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

O'Neill is currently Senior Logistics Manager at Powerscreen, a global manufacturer of equipment used in the quarrying, mining and construction industries.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“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

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

All the other visible hills, including those facing me across the narrow valley, looked to be in good health, except where they had been scarred and gouged by quarrying or strip mining, which was regularly.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson