Definition of quarrying
: the business, occupation, or act of extracting useful material (such as building stone) from quarries
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The temple is unique in that over-quarrying of sandstone led to the use of laterite for the roofed corridors.
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The mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sector was the biggest driver of February’s output gain.
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Activity in the mining, quarrying, and oil- and gas-extraction sector fell 2.7% in January, its largest decline in 20 months.
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Obviously, there is no free lunch, and the problem here is quarrying, crushing, and transporting all that basalt.
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In South Africa the mining and quarrying industry has been growing more slowly than the economy as a whole since 1980, dragging down South Africa’s overall GDP growth by about 0.4 percentage points.
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Its mining and quarrying sector shrank 2.7 percent.
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Then there's the emerging hazard of anthropogenic earthquakes triggered by resource extraction such as mining and quarrying.
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Pruitt’s staff pointed to job gains across the overall mining sector — which includes oil and natural gas drilling, metal ore mining and stone quarrying.
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First Known Use of quarrying
circa 1828
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