Activists in the southern Thai province of Satun have for years protested against plans to open a quarry in the limestone mountain Khao Toh Krang. The limestone mountain sits just outside a UNESCO ...

While all sectors of construction equipment sales have been negatively impacted by Covid-19, some sectors have been hit worse than others. Sales of quarrying and mining equipment were already on a ...

The quarrying sector is pushing ahead with the development of many innovative features and solutions. Catrin Jones takes a look at some of the latest and greatest on the market. The UK’s construction, ...

A quarry is a site where a stone or gravel producer extracts a variety of raw materials from the earth. Common types of material extracted in quarrying activities include limestone, granite and sand.

EAST LONGMEADOW -- When town historian Bruce Moore was growing up in the 1960s, he and his buddies spent hours exploring the sandstone quarries that fueled the community's booming economy from the ...

The environment department's latest policy banning 'prospective' open-pit mines in the country has put the spotlight on quarrying, which was excluded in the ban BATANGAS, Philippines – The Department ...

Stone quarrying has been going on in Western Ghat states despite there being a close link between hard rock quarrying and slope failures in the form of landslides, such as the one that devastated ...

The state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA) has mandated use of non-electrical technology (NONEL) for blasting in quarries as a measure to reduce vibration of the ground and to alleviate ...

In Part 1, we looked at how quarrying within permanent forest reserves (PFRs) became Selangor’s “accidental cash cow”. Six quarries within the Bukit Lagong forest reserve (BLFR) became top earners ...

Most desert areas in Egypt are considered either uninhabitable wasteland, or vast quarries from which resources can be extracted. When engraved rocks from the Paleolithic era — petroglyphs — were ...

Easter Island’s Polynesian society cultivated crops in soil made especially fertile by the quarrying of rock for massive, humanlike statues, a new study suggests. Soil analyses indicate that ...