Definitionn. the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry
Last update: July 20, 2015
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There is a manufacture of tape in the town, and lead-mining and stone-quarrying are carried on in the neighbourhood; relics of the Roman working of the lead mines have been discovered. [Please select]
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Bromehead, "Mining and quarrying to the seventeenth century," in Charles Singer and others, _A history of technology_, vol. [Please select]
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_--The quarrying of quartz rock differs little from the quarrying of other metalliferous vein-stones. [Please select]
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The cost of quarrying, crushing and amalgamating a ton of rock, is six dollars. [Please select]
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In a little shanty a hundred yards away were the quarrying tools used in getting out the stone for the Cardin house. [Please select]
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Worst of all was the sore labour of quarrying stone for building, and carrying it down from the mountains to the shore. [Please select]
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It must have taken thousands of years for so many little shell-fish to pile themselves up into a quarrying-ground. [Please select]
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A wooden bin approximately seven feet square, used to store crushed rock before quarrying operations were abandoned, was inhabited by one rat. [Please select]
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The cost of working quartz rock, including quarrying, crushing and amalgamating, is in the best mills from five to ten dollars per ton. [Please select]
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The cost of quarrying common quartz rock is about two dollars per ton, that is, for mill-owners that understand the business and superintend the labor themselves. [Please select]
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