quarry

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

The county notified three property owners within 1,300 feet of the proposed quarry and ran a notice in the San Bernardino Sun newspaper, which is not widely read by Wrightwood residents, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

As they launched their campaign against the quarry, “vested rights” soon became an indelible part of their vocabularies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

It is on the edge of the quarry.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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 company’s construction-products arm—which includes 109 quarries and yards, nine asphalt plants and 19 terminals—recorded roughly 35 million tons of aggregates shipments last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

They also saw various quarries as well as the Hoover Dam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

They grow up and work in the fields or in the quarries.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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

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

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

What a man he was, granite as any quarried about Portland, a perfect model for some future equestrian statue.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

“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

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

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025

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