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.

The planned expansion of a stone quarry next to William B. Umstead State Park may depend on a single word in a 43-year-old mining permit. The word determines whether the mine’s owner, Wake Stone Corp.

Kundapur: Laterite stone mining is being carried out at several places in Kundapur and Byndoor taluks. However, many quarry ...

For nearly a century, the curve of the Mississippi River just east of Scott City was a hotbed for limestone mining. In 1998, mining stopped. Now, production is back on as the new Grays Point Stone and ...

Mines eventually run dry, but the holes and caverns left behind can serve as stable frameworks for the right kind of reuse. Across the globe, limestone and salt mines and rock quarries that long ...

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Caterpillar (CAT) is pushing its autonomous technology into new territory, expanding beyond large-scale mining operations and into quarry applications, as the company looks to translate decades of ...

Hyderabad: A woman farmer from a village near the Outer Ring Road (ORR) has secured relief after an 18-year legal battle ...