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	Stone Quarries
		The stone was scored, and with hammers and chisels broken into paving and curb-sized blocks, 16 inches by four feet or curb-sizes.
		Every quarry had its own kiln until the turn of the century, and, because the lime made from stone in this area was the whitest and strongest on the market, it was in demand regardless of cost, most of which was shipping cost.
		The Lannon stone quarries are being circled by subdivisions, and population brings regulations and controls which may, in time, strangle this famous industry.
	www.slahs.org /history/local/lannon/history/stone_quarry.htm (2742 words)

	Excite Deutschland - Business - Construction and Maintenance - Materials and Supplies - Masonry and Stone - Natural ...
		Quarriers and suppliers of natural stones for architectural and landscaping masonry, including gneiss, quartzite, schist, limestone, sandstone and marble.
		Quarry producer and exporter of slate in a variety of colors for use in roofing, flooring, paving, wall cladding, and billiard tabletop slate.
		Quarry owners, fabricators and importers/exporters of foreign and domestic granite and marble.
	www.excite.de /directory/Business/Construction_and_Maintenance/Materials_and_Supplies/Masonry_and_Stone/Natural_Stone/Quarries (490 words)

	Soft Stone Quarries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Aside from mud brick, soft stone was the most frequently used long-term building material in ancient Egypt.
		It was quarried throughout the east bank of the Nile near Cairo and the rest of the Delta region.
		When compared to hard stones like granite, it is easy to see why soft stones such as limestone were used to most often in construction.
	www.duke.edu /~jpw5/quarries/softstone.html (568 words)

	Introduction - Ontario Dimension Stone Producers and Processors Directory
		Great impetus was given to the quarrying industry by the construction of fortresses during the War of 1812 and later by the construction of the Rideau and Welland canals between 1824 and 1831.
		Heavy stone blocks, which had formed the load-bearing wall, were replaced by thin slabs of stone from 5 to 15 centimetres thick, sawn from large mill blocks.
		Quarrying for stone in the Sudbury area has been intermittent over the last 40 years, but with a renewed surge in the demand for architectural stone, a number of companies have begun new operations here.
	www.mndm.gov.on.ca /mndm/mines/mg/dimstone/intro_e.asp (1862 words)

	The Building Stones of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The region of Rome is volcanic in nature, and the hills of the city consist of a relatively soft and light volcanic material known as tufa (or tuff or tufo).
		Tufa is a characteristic stone of the west coast of Italy.
		In some it is soft: or example, in the environs of Rome at the quarries of Grotta Rossa, Palla, Fidenae, and of the Alban hills; in others it is medium, as at Tivoli, Amirternum, and Mount Soracte and in quarries of this sort; in stilll others it is hard, as in lava quarries.
	www.unc.edu /courses/rometech/public/content/quarries_and_stoneworking/TheBuildingStonesOfRome.htm (626 words)

	Stone Quarries of the Apostle Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century, stone quarrying was one of the most important industries in the Chequamegon Bay region.
		Sandstone from quarries on the Apostle Islands and the nearby mainland was shipped to growing metropolises such as Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, where it was used to build some of the cities' most distinctive landmarks.
		The quarrying technology employed in the region covered a broad range, from unsuccessful attempts at blasting- which tended to shatter the rock into rubble- to hand drilling and animal powered hoists, to state-of-the-art steam-powered apparatus.
	www.nps.gov /archive/apis/quarries.htm (965 words)

	Waterfalls, Stone Construction, Gardens, Landscaping, Rock Gardens, Stone Quarries, Stone Designs and Construction
		We brought the stone from our yard in northeast PA and the plantings were supplied by Silverbrook Nursery in Norton, VA. The actual construction of the display had to be completed in three days to be ready when the show opened.
		Stone walls, fences realty, were a result of industrious farmers taming the land for crop growing and homestead building.
		Stone boats, which were little more than flat wooden slabs with a rope or chain attached, were employed for sliding medium-sized stones over the grass in summer.
	membrane.com /philanet/stone/news.htm (1574 words)

	Building Stone Magazine: Thin Stone
		The guidelines state that the stone is lightweight enough to be installed on any structurally sound surface using "a standard mortar mix of good working consistency." Bonding agents can be added to mortar to increase its bond strength, but are normally not required if correct application procedures are followed.
		In the present global economy, stone is often quarried on one continent, fabricated on a second, and used in a construction project on still a third, so transportation costs have become an increasingly significant part of the formula when selecting stone.
		And, because thin stone is natural stone, it's available in all the colors and blends of full veneer, an important point to remember when there is the chance that both stone dimensions will be combined in the same project.
	www.buildingstonemagazine.com /summer-06/thinstone.html (2468 words)

	Artist's View of Portland Quarries and Stone
		The stone carries with it a strong sense of its origins, and to carve it is to be (consciously or not) in touch with the idea of transformation - liquid to solid, to hot to cold, dark to light, soft to hard, small to large, life to death.
		To move large blocks of stone, either with simple levers and blocks or with pulleys and machines, is like a performance in its own right, which can become a ritualistic preamble as important as the cutting or carving itself.
		The sculpture park and stone carving and sculpture workshops in Tout Quarry are courtesy of landowners Hanson Bath and Portland Stone and leaseholders Portland Town Council.
	learningstone.org /av.html (732 words)

	Ancient Egyptian resources: Stone
		Quarrying was very expensive, they therefore planned the extraction of the stone as well as they could and - at least at the limestone quarry of Qurna near Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep III - kept a record of their progress by inscribing marks on the rockface [9].
		The stone was dragged with oxen which his m[ajesty] captured [in his] victories [among] the Fenkhu.........
		So apart from the tool marks [2] left in the stone nothing factual [6] even remotely supports Dunn's theories [7]; and these marks are explained by orthodox Egyptology without recourse to energies or materials the availability of which cannot be proven.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/timelines/topics/stonework.htm (2197 words)

	IM&U Decorative Stone Page
		The Waterfall quarry near Kemmerer in western Wyoming was the source of the stone used to construct and face the city hall in Portland, Oregon.
		The University Quarry near Laramie was used to provide stone for about half of the buildings on the University of Wyoming Campus, and some of this stone was used on buildings in Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Fort Collins, Colorado.
		At the present time, there is one operating dimensional stone quarries, the Wyoming Gray Sandstone Quarry southeast of Rawlins, three custom stone fabricators, at least four decorative aggregate producers, and at least six landscape, fieldstone, and moss rock producers in Wyoming.
	www.wsgs.uwyo.edu /minerals/decstones.aspx (1046 words)

	Suttle Natural Stone in the U.K.
		The stone tombs that can be seen in cathedrals today were a creation of this era, and tombstones as a mark of respect and remembrance for the dead, carved with individual designs, were placed on graves from around the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
		A vital aspect of the stone trade yet to be addressed is of course the extraction and transportation of the material from its fixed position in the hillsides and cliffs of Purbeck to the merchants and customers all over the country.
		Though the uses of stone are today not too dissimilar from those of the past the actual quarrying of the stone is far from the dangerous underground workings and pick and shovel days of old.
	www.stone.uk.com /history (3836 words)

	Quarries
		Stone quarries appear as open wounds in nature, and more than 90% of the material is so-called scrap stone that is deposited in large fillings in nature.
		Furthermore, the transport of the large stone blocks with trucks to the port has serious drawbacks in the form of dust, noise, and traffic safety for residents along the route.
		It was particularly useful at the exhibition at the Nordic MUVIN conference in Bergen in the spring of 1993.
	www-lu.hive.no /muvin/quarries.html (1187 words)

	Bedford Stone Quarries
		It can be quarried in larger dimensions than any other stone; this is exemplified in the large flat stone required for the Vanderbilt mansion in New York, to transport which a car had to be specially constructed, and in the accompanying cut.
		The stone comes from the quarry so soft as to be readily worked by saw, chisel or planing machine, while on exposure it hardens to a strength of from 10,000 to 12,000 pounds to the square inch-a strength amply sufficient to sustain the weight of the largest structure in the world.
		In addition to operating their own extensive quarries, the Bedford Stone Quarries Company, owning nearly one thousand acres of Quarry land situated at the very heart of Buff Ridge, is prepared to offer extra inducements to Quarrymen to open new Quarries to be operated either at a fixed rental or on royalty.
	www.cagenweb.com /quarries/articles_and_books/stone_quarries_bedford.html (2091 words)

	DMR - Mineral Resources - Crushed Stone & Aggregate
		Dimension stone, a traditional building material, is mostly used for construction either for structural or decorative uses.
		Because of the relatively high value of dimension stone quarry location and distance to market is not as critical as with crushed stone.
		Although some quarries use low powered or soft explosives to good effect, other techniques are typically used for successful dimension stone quarrying.
	www.mme.state.va.us /Dmr/DOCS/MinRes/AGGR/stone_dim.html (584 words)

	Dust raised by stone quarries pollutes villages in Songadh
		Dust raised by stone quarries pollutes villages in Songadh
		SONGADH (Surat), May 10: The dust raised by the 22 stone quarries in the region is creating health hazards in seven villages, besides damaging the land.
		Says Ishwarbhai of Ashram Stone Quarries: ``The villages are not affected as they are three km away from the quarries.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990511/ige11131.html (496 words)

	Stone Quarries and Salvage - Custom Building, Design & Restoration
		Vermont Quarries Corporation is a full service quarry and fabricator of historic Vermont Danby white marble and Vermont Verde green serpentine marble.
		Reclaimed Pennsylvania field stone, barn foundation stone and wall stone is salvaged from historic structures in the Lehigh Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania by C. Enterprises.
		Set in place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this reclaimed weathered natural field stone (both hand cut and natural) allows the mason to achieve a look of tradition and permanence for structures, landscaping and retaining walls.
	www.traditional-building.com /RTEstone_quarries.htm (426 words)

	Business People Vermont article: Vermont's Quarry Industry
		Rock of Ages discards 85 percent of the granite it recovers from the quarry to eliminate imperfections in the stone.
		Both established quarries a few years after the end of the War of 1812, but it would be another decade or two before the industry came into its own when bids were taken to construct the Vermont Statehouse using granite.
		Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co. for 150 years, Danby marble has been used in prestigious buildings across the world, including the Jefferson Memorial (1939) and Supreme Court building (1931) in Washington, D.C.; the United Nations building (1955) in New York; and the Oregon state capital (1937) in Salem.
	www.vermontguides.com /1999/2-feb/quarries.htm (1583 words)

	Stone - Quarries - Real Home Guide
		Quarriers and fabricators of original lannon, chilton and fond du lac stone.
		Quarriers, fabricators, suppliers, and exporters of tyndall stone, a limestone rich in decorative fossils.
		Quarry, fabricate, finish and deliver to distributors throughout the united states and canada.
	www.realhomeguide.com /construction/masonry/stone/quarries (234 words)

	Stone quarries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This stone is on view anywhere and everywhere in Portland, but is seen to best advantage on the western side, where the cliffs rise perpendicularly from the beach....
		Convict labour is employed in the Crown quarries, but a large number of the inhabitants are employed in the private ones, and the quarrymen hand down the employment from father to son, and form a kind of guild among themselves, the intrusion of strangers, or 'kimberlins' as they are termed, being warmly resented.
		When I see Portland stone in London I shall think of the sea breaking against high hills; I shall hear the scream of the gulls, the suck back of pebbles on the little stony beaches; the white dust lying over the road in the little mysterious Isle of London.
	www.powys-lannion.net /Powys/Weymouth/Quarriesmap.htm (549 words)

	Stone Quarries of the Apostle Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During the 1880s and 1890s, new quarries were established on Stockton Island by the Ashland Brownstone Company (1889) and on Hermit Island by the Excelsior Brownstone Company (1890-1891).
		The single most important figure in the development of the local quarrying industry was Frederick Prentice, who began investing in potential quarry properties on the islands as early as 1857.
		Quarry remains on Hermit Island are more difficult of access, but the landing area can be seen from a boat, with large blocks of cut sandstone still waiting for shipment.
	www.nps.gov /apis/quarries.htm (965 words)

	Silent victims of silicosis
		After 30 years of breaking silica stone, crushing it, breathing it in as dust and coughing it out as disease, Jiyawan has been left too ill even to walk upright, and too breathless to tell his story.
		Quarry No.5 is a village of about 150 families, where each man, woman and many of the children work in silica or stone quarries.
		R.V. At a stone quarry in Allahabad district.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2222/stories/20051104002009200.htm (1561 words)

	Historic 19th Century quarry reopens - Feature Article - Stone World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Scottish stone carvers completed the extensive carving on the entrance, and after over a century of weathering, the detail is still breathtaking, according to Keopple.
		In 1999, the property that lies between two of the four historic quarries was purchased, and six months later, the land to the south was purchased.
		Immediately upon the reopening of the quarry, the stone was used as sills, lintels and a watertable on a local job match for a building in Eau Claire, WI, which was originally constructed in 1900.
	www.stoneworld.com /CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/a8afec60cac3e010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____ (1765 words)

	Hard Stone Quarries
		As one would expect, extracting materials from hard stone quarries was significantly more difficult for ancient Egyptians than from their soft stone counterparts.
		After the trench had reached its desired depth (a bit deeper than the depth of the block being quarried), workers had to cut out enough rock from underneath the block so that it could be broken free by massive wooden levers.
		Most studies of ancient Egyptian quarrying techniques for hard stone have focused on granite, but we know that quartzite at least was not obtained by pounding around it with dolerite balls.
	www.duke.edu /~jpw5/quarries/hardstone.html (623 words)

	Paul Klee and the stone quarries at Ostermundigen
		The stone quarries at Ostermundigen and the former stone-dressing site at Waldeck (which today lies at the junction between Bernstrasse and Zentweg) were important locations for the work of Paul Klee in Bern’s surroundings.
		Their significance as a source of inspiration for his artistic work is considerable, comparable for instance with the old city centre of Bern, the Matte district and Lake Thun – or in a broader context the landscapes of northern Germany, Sardinia, Corsica and the south of France.
		A number of Klee’s works whose theme is inspired by the stone quarries show that they mark the transition from representational art to abstraction, a theme that is also of considerable didactic interest.
	www.paulkleezentrum.ch /ww/en/pub/web_root/zpk/die_umgebung/wege_zu_klee/paul_klee_und_die_ostermundige.cfm (386 words)

	Quarry Districts Along The Monon
		The quarry was located three quarters of a mile south of Stinesville on the banks of Jack’s Defeat Creek.
		Limestone from the quarry was used to construct the court houses in Lafayette, Lebanon, and Terre Haute.
		Stone was 12 feet 8 inches by 6 feet 3 inches by 6 feet 3 inches.
	www.monon.monon.org /bygone/monquarries.html (1154 words)

	Stone quarries at Ostermundigen
		Generations of labourers, stone masons and builders owed their subsistence to sandstone from Ostermundigen.
		The quarries were a source of inspiration for many of his paintings and drawings.
		A Stone Quarries Joint Venture has also been established, spontaneously bringing together the principal land owners, users and residents of the area in question, at the foot of the Ostermundigenberg.
	www.paulkleezentrum.ch /ww/en/pub/web_root/zpk/die_umgebung/wege_zu_klee/ostermundiger_steinbr_che.cfm (450 words)

	Jerusalem Stone, Stone Quarries
		Stone Quarries are located in the North, Center, and South of Israel, giving a range of materials different in shades and textures.
		The JERUSALEM STONES collection is mostly known for its warm, rich, and natural textures and shades.
		From the same quarry as the Alony Gold, Alony Grey, adds a light grey tone to the natural earth-colors of the Jerusalem Stone Collection.
	www.alonymarble.com /JerusalemStone (314 words)

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