A giant mining company is pressing ahead with plans to create a granite quarry in a 900-acre tract just north of Athens in Jackson County. The site off U.S. Highway 441, near its intersection with ...

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"We had to make a timeline, so they made the call to do that." The rock in the quarry is andesite, a particularly hard type of rock suitable for infrastructure projects such as roading, rails and ...

Officials have identified a worker who was killed Thursday when a rock ledge collapsed onto an excavator at a quarry in Sterling, Massachusetts. Brian Curtis Derby, 67, of Townsend, Massachusetts ...

Wake Stone has been blasting and crushing rock for 42 years near Umstead State Park. The company would like to expand and build a second quarry on leased Raleigh-Durham International Airport property.

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Vulcan announced the pending acquisition of Wake Stone Corporation, which is based in Knightdale and operates the Triangle Rock Quarry near Umstead State Park among other sites in the region.

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. The town of Gorham has two rock quarries and one asphalt plant close to the center of town. Quarries affect air quality, increase health risks ...

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