quarry

Residents who were forced to evacuate their homes due to flooding following a planned blast at Taff's Well quarry have called for it to shut.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

To Tom Wolfe, New York City was the “billion-footed beast,” the locus of the country’s power, wealth and taste-making, and the ultimate quarry of any ambitious writer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

The day after the accident I began to piece together what happened at the quarry, trying to pull out the details that my father wouldn’t give me.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Number two was Vulcan Materials, which operates rock quarries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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

But many sections of green belt today contain intensive farming units, industrial buildings, quarries and golf courses.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

For nearly four decades, Mamta and Neeraj Pathak had lived a seemingly orderly middle-class life in Chhatarpur - a drought-prone district of Madhya Pradesh known for its farms, granite quarries, and small businesses.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

An hour later we were in Dominick’s car headed to swim at 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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

The first mice had built the Abbey of red sandstone quarried from pits many miles away in the north-east.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

“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

“We anticipate this trend will continue, with a particular focus on areas such as mining, quarrying, construction and defense.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

After analyzing the model, the team identified 30 distinct quarrying areas, each showing unique carving approaches.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 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