quarry

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

Descendants of Michael P. Hannin, who acquired the quarry in 1931, applied for vested rights in 2018, saying they had long intended to mine and process the lime deposits there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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

Put into shackles and forced to labor in the limestone quarries of Syracuse, the captive characters speak in a working-class Dublin dialect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

When the FTC first moved against this practice with a 1973 rule, its quarries were 72 book clubs and four record clubs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

Its sides were mangy with the scars of logging, and the lower slopes were pitted with slate and marble quarries.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Mr Gray, from Shipley, who started working as a stone dresser in 1997, used power and hand tools to make paving slabs from reclaimed quarried stone.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024

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 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

Elsewhere, gains were seen in social work as well as mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, the BLS said.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Returning to the village late in the day, with her baskets and belly full of apples, Alyce cut through the manor field, near where the villagers had dug a pit for the quarrying of gravel.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman