CASTLETON — The town is having some trouble finding records related to a local slate quarry whose blasting operations saw large rocks landing in a residential neighborhood last summer. Jayne Nicklaw, ...

Plans to reclaim a slate quarry in Washington and Plainfield townships will come before Washington Township's zoning hearing board tonight. Slate Hills Enterprises wants to fill in the quarry and ...

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A Slate Belt community is looking for ways to make sure quarry fill is environmentally safe. Plainfield Township officials are contemplating adopting regulations that would help protect against ...

Plans have been submitted to extend the life of a 200-year-old quarry in North Wales. Ffestiniog Quarry, also known as Oakeley Quarry or Gloddfa Ganol Mine, is nestled in the heart of Blaenau ...

ABSTRACT: Many slate quarries in northeastern Pennsylvania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were small, family-owned operations, not large corporate complexes. For quarry owners, supervisors, ...

A proposed extension to slate extraction operations at a Gwynedd quarry is expected to get the go-ahead. An application has been made for a lateral extension to the working area of Penrhyn Quarry in ...

The aftermath of a huge "landslide" at a historic slate quarry has been caught on camera. An eyewitness filmed clouds of dust billowing from part of Dinorwig Quarry following the reported slippage ...