WEST ROCKHILL >> About 4,500 pounds of explosives were detonated during an April 15 tour of the Naceville Materials Quarry. The group of residents taking the tour, who were in the quarry but about ...

QUINCY -- You have a chance to experience a walk in the Quincy Granite Rail Quarry without setting foot there, thanks to some ingenuity over at the hard-working Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers ...

JoAnne Swingle Hennigan, daughter and granddaughter of the owners of Swingle’s Quarry, will help lead a free public tour of the now-filled-in property at 2 p.m. Sunday. She will also share stories ...

Despite the bright sunny early spring day, dozens of Elmhurst residents had flooding on their minds as they queued up Saturday for bus and walking tours of portions of the Elmhurst Quarry. “The ...

The Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Tinsman said that what he observed was quite different from the quarry he remembered back in the 1960s and ’70s. “When I was old enough to drive, I drove a dump ...

BLACKSBURG — A school bus carrying about 30 hard hat-donning Auburn Middle School students stopped in the bottom of the Acco Stone quarry on Thursday morning. “That’s awesome,” one student said as the ...

FALLBROOK — A San Diego State University representative hosteda tour of the school’s Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve on Fridaymorning to promote the reserve’s scientific value and decry whatthe ...

In early May 1989, personnel with Martin-Marietta offered close to 250 customers, neighbors and local officials a lunch and tour of its quarry site in Woodleaf. In this photo, members of one of the ...

MILFORD – From the original Penn Station in New York City to the Boston Public Library, Milford’s famous "pink granite" has a long and diverse history. Local residents are invited to learn more about ...

My appreciation of rocks is a byproduct of university studies. If not for science requirements at Illinois State University, I probably wouldn’t give geology a second thought. Actually, what I like ...