quarry

The Health and Safety Executive is investigating what happened at the Taff's Well quarry, near Cardiff, which resulted in damage to 15 properties.

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

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 next morning, I looked for stories about the quarry accident in the Boston Globe again.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

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

They form a chain around the quarries, and keep a look-out that none escapes.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

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

It has close connections with the slate trade which once dominated north west Wales' economy, with its harbour once used for the transport of slate quarried nearby.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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 Tehlin church was the nicest building in town, three stories tall and made of quarried stone.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Since being granted permission to expand its operations and continue quarrying at at Craig yr Hesg until 2047, residents say they have been left feeling angry and frustrated.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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

“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

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