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QUARRY. A place whence stones are dug for the purpose of being employed in
building, making roads, and the like.
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| Quarriers story: one man's vision that gave 7,000 children a new life in Canada. Villerme, "De la moralite dans les divers quarriers de Ia ville de Paris," Annales d'hygiene publique 3 (1830): 337-38. The US mineral construction materials industry includes roughly 45 companies that operate 118 cement plants, hundreds of local sand and gravel quarriers, and thousands of ready-mix concrete operators. |
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