quarries in English

noun
1
a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.
The materials extracted from the quarries - used widely in the local building industry - contained large quantities of fibrous amphiboles.
2
an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey.
Moreover, hunting is not a natural encounter between predator and quarry because, unlike animals, humans are responsible for their actions.
verb
1
extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry.
As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks.

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1. It describes the private quarries, government quarries, site crushers and importation of aggregates, and it outlines the planning for future quarries.

2. 20 The hills are scarred by quarries.

3. Hargreaves Quarries is expected to excite the most interest.

4. The quarries on the skyline are now used as caravan sites.

5. In mines, rubbish dumps, abattoirs, quarries or any other kind of extractive industry;

6. Crushing and screening contract awarded for Sunshine Coast quarries Black Cat Civil has received an $8.5 million contract for work at the Image Flat and Dulong quarries on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

7. Then it started on Cumbrian limestone, blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so, finally, to Raven Crag.

8. On the other hand, crushed rock aggregate quarries output large quantities of mineral residues.

9. So the bones were moved from the cemeteries into the quarries, making them into the catacombs.

10. Quarries in the sill, provide the bulk of the crushed rock aggregates in the region suitable for roadstone.

11. The Blaenavon Ironworks was opened around 1789 and caused development of the mines, quarries and housing.

12. Waste rock from limestone quarries is frequently used as aggregate for road and other construction purposes.

13. He passed the quarries at Gilgal and eventually reached Seirah, a place in the mountainous region of Ephraim.

14. Key words: alkali-aggregate reaction, expansion, fly ash, meta-sediments, mortar bar test, pozzolans, prism test, quarries, supplementary cementing materials.

15. More than 100 sites, including quarries and gravel pits, to supply every need for all your aggregate needs.

16. Old quarries where partially finished work was abandoned have shed some light on the ancient methods of quarrying.

17. Classes of project defined in Annex I include such things as overhead power lines, quarries and waste incinerators.

18. Activity in the slate quarries continues with a mightily impressive new route at Hodge Close from Paul Cornforth.

19. You will find Bulldozers deployed in all sorts of situations, from quarries and mines to construction sites and even military uses.

20. Disused alluvial sand and gravel quarries have created water surfaces sometimes directly connected through a channel with adjacent streams.

21. Here a great number of large alluvial aggregate quarries, whose excavations extend below the water table, have long been active.

22. It was made of limestone obtained from quarries near Nauvoo and lumber floated down the river from pineries in Wisconsin.

23. A method for the investigation of the evolution of rocks in quarries was established by technical seismic refraction and acoustic emission.

24. Quarries in level areas with shallow groundwater or which are located close to surface water often have engineering problems with drainage.

25. Béton Provincial has over 100 quarries and gravel pits for all your aggregate needs. We also have several mobile stone crushers.

26. The site investigation mapping was of relevance to final design selection of tunnel alignments, siting of engineering structures, and operation of quarries.

27. The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.Sentencedict

28. 9 The one who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and the one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

29. Many people I know deplore the digging of these cant quarries and call them ugly eyesores and the rape of the country.

30. It has 16 cement plants across Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan as well as several concrete mix plants, concrete goods factories and aggregate-mining quarries.

31. “[Ehud] turned back at the quarries that were at Gilgal, and he proceeded to say: ‘I have a secret word for you, O king.’”

32. The slag wastes ( from metal extraction industries ) may be used to fill the quarries and mines and the landscape may thus be restored .

33. Moreover, all aggregates quarries would produce some cut stone if there is demand for it and if the rock is suitable for cutting.

34. He is attested by a series of inscriptions mentioning a mining expedition to the rock quarries at Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert during his reign.

35. The term "Cutters" heard in the film is used to represent Bloomington, Indiana townies who work cutting rock in the local limestone quarries.

36. Charente has numerous stone quarries, and there are peat workings and beds of clay which supply brick and tile-works and earthenware manufactories

37. This revealed that four or five (73) quarries were registered as benefiting from the exemption from shale while producing cut stone and shale for aggregates use.

38. Holcim España, SA (‘Holcim España’, Spain) owns plants and quarries dedicated to the production and supply of cement, aggregates, RMX and mortar in Spain (‘Holcim Assets’, Spain).

39. Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge 'Bluestones', provide new evidence of megalith quarrying 5,000 years ago, according to a …

40. HeidelbergCement operates 139 cement plants with an annual cement capacity of 176 million tonnes, more than 1,500 ready mixed concrete production sites, and over 600 aggregates quarries.

41. Snow-capped mountains loom in the distance while smaller hills tumble down towards the town, criss-crossed by paths and nibbled away by quarries at their bases.

42. ‘Small Acicular rutile crystals are found in cavities in various quarries in the Carrara, Tuscany district, Italy.’ ‘Wollastonite or calcium metasilicate is a naturally occurring industrial mineral that has an Acicular …

43. Between 1995 and 1998, Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating of Zyzyphus cf. nummularia charcoal found in the quarries has yielded evidence that the activity continued into 1870-1800 BCE.

44. The newly discovered circle – one of the largest ever constructed in Britain – is virtually a stone’s throw (3 miles) from the Preseli quarries from which the Bluestones were extracted

45. The 3,290 hectares (8,100 acres) site contains the Blaenavon Ironworks and the Big Pit coal mine, surrounded by mines and quarries, manufacturing plant, railways, canal, workers' housing and social infrastructure.

46. 1 day ago · A research team led by University College London Archaeologists has discovered a 5,000-year-old dismantled stone circle in west Wales, close to Stonehenge’s bluestone quarries

47. Donors should also be found for the restoration of abandoned quarries (landscaping as habitat for endemic species), completing the air and water monitoring system (equipment) and expansion of the beach improvement program.

48. Oxen hauled the Ashlars from the quarry on rollers (4) for a mile or so down to the construction site, which was 125 feet lower than the quarries north of the Temple Mount

49. Williams Stone Company quarries and fabricates granite curbing, driveway corners, bullnose ends, curbing accessories, driveway corners, Bullnoses, granite landscape products, granite veneers and granite paving blocks for highway construction and site development in East Otis, MA

50. This publication deals with complete monitoring of drill snd blast data in the quarries of Mineral Abbau GmbH/Strabag SE. These comprise data monitoring before, during and after blasting to ensure a safe and economic result.