A LEADING wildlife charity has criticised plans to infill a Thurrock quarry that has become one of south Essex’s most important havens for rare insects, after the long delayed planning application was ...

Woodland at Zitherixon Quarry forms a green buffer between homes and mineral workings A large woodland separating homes from a mineral quarry has been given official protection, although councillors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 28—A judge ordered the owners of the Belle Mina rock quarry to shut down, as requested in a lawsuit by Belle Mina homeowners ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Limestone County Circuit Court Judge Matthew Huggins ordered a controversial Belle Mina quarry to stop operations until it meets ...

Jerald Schnabel, president and general manager of Castle Aggragates, stands in the newly renovated Pikeview Quarry in Colorado Springs on January 14, 2026. (The Gazette, Michael G. Seamans) It began ...

The fight against operation of a quarry in the Belle Mina community returns to court in Limestone County on Wednesday. Limestone County Circuit Judge Matthew Huggins will hear requests from residents ...

Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new clues about how these monuments were made and the Polynesian society that brought ...

LA GRANGE, Ky. — A well-known Oldham County swimming spot is entering a new chapter. The former Falling Rock Quarry has been sold and will reopen under a new name: Bluegrass Spring. The new operator, ...

Did you know that the Statue of Liberty’s platform is made of granite from right here in Connecticut? The granite is from the Stony Creek Quarry in Branford. Now, the quarry is making history again.

OWASSO, Okla. — An expansion proposal for a rock quarry in Owasso has some residents worried about how it could affect their homes and quality of life. The Tulsa County Board of Adjustment is meeting ...