Quarry definition

Quarry means a pit, excavation, or other place made by any means for the purpose of removing Construction Materials or a site identified for such purposes, and includes works, machinery, plants, and buildings below or above ground belonging to or used in connection with a Quarry.
Quarry means the excavation, processing, and stockpiling of gravel, stone, sand, earth, clay fill, or other similar substances.
Quarry means a facility or operation that obtains stone from the earth by means of cutting, digging, excavating, or blasting.

Examples of Quarry in a sentence

  • Takeover of Quarry by the Government and/ or any agency designated by Government resulting in complete loss of production.

  • Also, BMA has been approved to develop two additional facilities in Wake County, FKC Holly Springs and FMC Rock Quarry, but the facilities were not yet operational on December 31, 2018.

  • Previous restoration planting at the Quarry has been used as a guide for revegetation planning.

  • Gosford Quarry had 57,687,805 fully paid ordinary shares on issue.

  • The new dog waste bin has arrived for the Quarry and an exact location for it will be decided.


More Definitions of Quarry

Quarry means any work or undertaking in which granular materials are removed from the ground or the land by any method, and includes all ways, works, machinery, plant, buildings and premises belonging to or used in connection with the quarry. (carrière)
Quarry means an excavation or system of excavations made for the purpose of, or in connection with, the getting of minerals (whether in their natural state or in solution or suspension) or products of minerals, being neither a mine nor merely a well or bore-hole or a well and bore-hole combined, and shall be deemed to include-
Quarry means a place where consolidated rock has been or is being removed by means of an open excavation to supply material for construction, industrial or manufacturing purposes but does not include a wayside quarry or open pit metal mine.
Quarry means an open surface excavation or pit created for the purpose of extracting stone, rock, sand and gravel.
Quarry or “open cut” or “open pit” means a surface mining operation in which mineral or rock is extracted from the earth by excavating into a natural surface gradient and includes —
Quarry means a place where rock, ore, stone, peat or similar materials are excavated for off-site use to supply material for construction, industrial, manufacturing or other purposes; and “quarrying” includes blasting, primary processing (such as washing, screening, crushing or storage of the material excavated) and the making of concrete or asphalt from the material excavated;
Quarry means an opencast working as defined in Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952);