An Environmental Impact Assessment report has been prepared to extend the 14-hectare granite quarry to 110 hectares. The report covering an area in Bergama and Ayvalık in the north Aegean foresees the ...

Planning approvals for slate quarrying have been granted for four sites and work can begin immediately. The Department of Planning said the green light had been given to Rocky Heights Quarry off Lolly ...

Q: When did work at the Portland quarries begin and end? A: Settlers arriving in East Middletown, which later became Portland, hit the mother lode, so to speak, in brownstone. Portland brownstone gave ...

A year after Elmhurst became a village in 1882, Adolph Hammerschmidt and Henry Assman teamed up to quarry Elmhurst limestone. Today, nearly 103 years later, Hammerschmidt`s descendants are still ...

They've been at it 14 months now, and as spectacular a phase as there will be in the construction of the new $160-million federal courthouse here has now begun. Stone masons this week began setting in ...