Quarried

Government has sent out a letter of approval for an aerial survey of quarried lands, to determine which of the lands are being quarried illegally and which are licensed.

And Sean Mahoney with the Conservation Law Foundation said he supports changing the mining law’s requirements around some open pit mines, including the one proposed in Newry, as long as the quarried rock will not cause pollution.

These building stones were quarried from fossiliferous rock layers dated to the Jurassic or Cretaceous periods when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.

Homely accommodations with meadow views will feature natural materials, including stone quarried on site and mattresses made with wool from Fowlescombe’s flock of Manx Loaghtan sheep, and will have their own cooking facilities.

Like Tel Aviv, it is mostly white as all buildings must be faced with Jerusalem stone, a mix of limestone quarried in the Judean Hills that reflects the sun.

Over 50 acres is known as the Crown Farm Nature Reserve, which is land that has already been quarried and restored.

The stone used for countertops and bathroom walls was quarried in North America.

Among them are the Leighton Buzzard memorial which is understood to have been formed from the largest single undressed granite block ever quarried in the UK, and the Old Basing war memorial in Basingstoke, which commemorates 25 local men.

At this site, huge stones were quarried for purposes of governmental buildings in Second Temple Jerusalem.

Built of locally quarried reddish sandstone, the temple dates back very likely to the eighth century CE, in the age of the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir.

People have quarried it for bricks ever since seeing as it was built with the blood of their ancestors and they feel it is very convenient to recycle the bricks that so uselessly litter the border with Mongolia and Siberia.

A number of granite outcrops along the south coast have been quarried in the past, making for spectacular scenery and good rock-climbing.

Averaging between forty and fifty feet in height, and weighing up to fifty tons each, all the pillars were quarried at Chunar, just south of Varanasi and dragged, sometimes hundreds of miles, to where they were erected.

Contemporary Native American jewellery ranges from hand-quarried and processed stones and shells to computer-fabricated steel and titanium jewellery.

Grey granite was quarried at Rubislaw quarry for more than 300 years, and used for paving setts, kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental pieces.

Here men were dredging harbors, there they laid the deep foundations of a theatre, and quarried massive pillars..

In order to fit in, the road and walkway structures between the terraces were built with stones quarried within the park.

In the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, it was extensively quarried for building materials to supply building projects elsewhere in the city.

It was formerly quarried for phosphate ( guano ).

It was quarried and first dedicated in the reign of Seti I Augustus brought it from Heliopolis at enormous expense, and erected midway along the dividing barrier.