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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

Number two was Vulcan Materials, which operates rock quarries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 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

Several of the homes on the way to the quarries were built from huge blocks of granite, containing quartz, feldspar, and mica, all visible to the naked eye, as Fred once showed me.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen