We live near 2 rock quarries. One quarry, applied for and obtained required county permits. Conditional Use Permits. They have regulated days and hours of operations. They provide notices of blasting, before the event. The other quarry… ...
Quarry no. 11 received poor marks and was perceived as dangerous due to its location (near a shoreline of steep cliffs). However, the other two quarries from the area were perceived as safer, since they are not located as close to the shoreline and are not as high. Moreover, according ...
I view this scene sitting on my hand-made slate bench, with tea, and dream how I’ll stage it differently next time. During air travel, I’ve gazed down upon huge open-pit mines. Colorful, terraced chasms span miles near the Rockies. In nearby Arizona, Gary and Peggy Martin carved ...
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Their potential exploitation depends on factors such as geology, environmental and heritage protection laws, or even on social rejection near populated areas. These factors are forcing quarries to move away from demand areas and make the aggregates to be transported for longer distances, with ...
Batscombe quarry (also spelled “Batts Coombe”; ST 461550) is located near Cheddar (Fig. 1, Fig. 2B), and the deposits are largely overgrown (Fraser, 1994), but the quarry is still operated by Hanson as a supplier of aggregate, with extraction works continuing in other areas of the ...
"It could have taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to get them to Stonehenge, but that's pretty improbable in my view. It's more likely that the stones were first used in a local monument, somewhere near the quarries, that was then dismantled and dragged off to ...