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

A quarry with vested rights must still clear a review of its reclamation plan for how the land will be restored once mining ends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Once he stood at the guardhouse door of a quarry, and some ladies dressed in warm heavy coats and boots came and sang Christmas songs.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

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

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

We coasted by the entrance to Halibut Point State Park where, some nights, Fred’s sisters swam in the quarries.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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

Unlike the hard beach stones used at the nearby Neolithic village of Skara Brae, the stones used in the Ness buildings were quarried.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

“Besides, you don’t use stones to build barrows. Even if you did, you wouldn’t use quarried, finished stone like this. This was brought from a long ways off.”

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