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   What is a stone quarry?

   • Stone quarry is an outdated term for mining construction rocks (limestone, marble, granite, sandstone, etc.). There are open types (called quarries, or open-pit mines) and closed types ( mines and caves). For thousands of years, only hand tools had been used in quarries.

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   What is a quarry & how does it work?

   • A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to manage their safety risks and reduce their environmental impact.

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   What is a quarry in construction?

   • What is a quarry? A quarry is the name given to an open-air mine without a ‘roof’ (the term mine is used for a site that’s underground). A quarry is a place where natural stone, gravel or sand is extracted for use in construction or other decorative building purposes (such as gravel paths or decorative garden aggregates).

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   What is a quarry in physics?

   • A quarry is a place where rocks, sand, or minerals are extracted from the surface of Earth. A quarry is a type of mine called an open-pit mine, because it is open to Earth's surface. This huge quarry in Carrara, Italy, has been a source of high-quality marble for centuries.

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   What is a dimension stone quarry?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. quarry, place where dimension stone or aggregate (sand, gravel, crushed rock) is mined. The products of dimension stone quarries are prismatic blocks of rock such as marble, granite, limestone, sandstone, and slate.

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   What does quarey mean in English?

   • Middle English quarey, an altered form of quarrere "a place for digging stones for use in building," from Latin quadrus "hewn stone," literally, "squared stone," from Latin quadrum "a square" The quarry a hunter chases is not related to the quarry that supplies building stones.

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   Oct 19, 2023 · A quarry is a place where rocks, sand, or minerals are extracted from the surface of Earth. A quarry is a type of mine called an open-pit mine, because it is open to Earth's surface. Another type of mine, a subsurface mine, consists of underground tunnels or shafts. The most common purpose of quarries is to extract stone for building materials ...

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   A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to manage their safety risks and reduce their environmental impact.

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   Jun 5, 2024 · Quarry, place where dimension stone or aggregate (sand, gravel, crushed rock) is mined. The products of dimension stone quarries are prismatic blocks of rock such as marble, granite, limestone, sandstone, and slate. After cutting and polishing, these materials are used in the primary construction.

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   a place where stone, sand, etc. is dug out of the ground for use as building material: a granite/limestone/marble quarry His father worked in a limestone quarry. a rock / stone / slate quarry.

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   a place where stone, sand, etc. is dug out of the ground for use as building material: a granite/limestone/marble quarry His father worked in a limestone quarry. a rock / stone / slate quarry.

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   Mar 11, 2020 · Quarries provide sand, gravel, stone and crushed rocks which can be used in a huge variety of construction projects, from building roads to bridges, housing and garden paths. Most quarries are man-made and the process is much more detailed than simply blasting a big hole in the ground.

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   Noun. On a hilltop next to a vast limestone quarry in England’s East Midlands, a crowd of about 60 people gathered last Thursday evening to witness the lighting of a beacon to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.