The NC Department of Environmental Quality has denied a mining permit for a controversial quarry next to the 5,600-acre Umstead State Park in Raleigh, citing “significantly adverse effects” from ...

The Clark County hearings examiner has determined that J.L. Storedahl & Sons can pursue a mining permit on a portion of a Yacolt quarry despite the company’s commitment to not conduct extraction, rock ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LENEXA, Kan. —A Topeka-based developer is ...

Russ Boswell has been playing games ever since he was old enough to hold a controller. He started his love for gaming with the NES and Super Mario Bros. specifically. Over the years, he has collected ...

Wake Stone has been blasting and crushing rock for 42 years near Umstead State Park. The company would like to expand and build a second quarry on leased Raleigh-Durham International Airport property.

Residents near Chelatchie Bluff thought an application that could someday allow surface mining of gravel on 330 acres near their homes was dead. After all, the Clark County Council held a public ...

The huge red dirt terraces of Pikeview Quarry have marked the mountains west of Colorado Springs, expanding for more than a century to eventually cover 125 acres. “Is it like a mining scar?” El Paso ...

Five additional bodies were pulled from the debris of a collapsed stone quarry in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district on Monday, raising the death toll to six, an official said. According to Sonbhadra ...

The possibility of groundwater contamination has some Alsace Township residents concerned about new operations at the Temple Quarry along Pricetown Road. Highway Materials Inc., owner and operator of ...

Neighbors of the proposed 70-acre rock quarry mine gather in front of an opposition sign along Frost Road in Whatcom County, Wash. The project proposes trucking the gravel along Frost Road. Rachel ...