quarrying

IPA: kwˈɔriɪŋ

Examples of "quarrying" in Sentences

The death rate is higher than the average rate for other dangerous jobs such as quarrying, logging and coal mining.
NSK has introduced a range of sealed-clean spherical roller bearings (SRB) for use in industries such as quarrying and construction, and paper and steel making.
Large-scale mineral exploitation such as quarrying leaves distinctive scars that, in the case of Earth, would eventually become obscured by overlying strata but would still show up in geological surveys.
The government may instead opt for a more tailored solution where some vulnerable types of mining are excluded, such as quarrying and salt mining, and others are given temporary exclusion and/or substantial new tax breaks.
Ancient Egyptian quarrying is seen under its most striking aspect among extensive limestone or sandstone ranges, as at Turra and Silsilis; but the process by which the stone was extracted can nowhere be more distinctly traced than at Assûan.
The problem now, from the herders’ perspective, principally concerns land withdrawals for petroleum exploration, infrastructure development, and related degradation processes such as quarrying for sand and gravel, blowing sand and dust, and off-road vehicle traffic in summer [25].