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

  • This award shall be known as the Quarry Workers' Award, 1969, and replaces Award No. 44 of 1948 as amended and Award No. 43 of 1956 as amended.

  • This Award is known as the Quarry, Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel Industry Award - State 2003.

  • In consideration of Christian County Limestone Company, L.L.C. d/b/a Pana Limestone Quarry Company (“Pana Limestone”) selling to the above-named Applicant and Applicant’s agent(s) or employees, the undersigned confirms and agrees to the following terms and conditions of the purchase(s): (1) The undersigned is authorized to sign this Credit Agreement on behalf of the above-named Applicant and the information provided herein (including on this page and on the reverse page) is complete and accurate.

  • Sharon (eds.), Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard, pp.

  • Additional time off shall be subject to consultation and agreement with the Quarry manager or nominee.


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 open surface excavation or pit created for the purpose of extracting stone, rock, sand and gravel.
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 a place where aggregate has been or is being removed from an open excavation made in a solid mass of igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rock or any combination of these which, prior to removal, was integral to the parent mass.
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 an opencast working as defined in Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952);