Gordion was the capital of ancient Phrygia, an Iron Age kingdom of Anatolia, said to have been ruled by the legendary King ...

An environmental group is asking the Nova Scotia government to quash the approval of a small quarry in a Lunenburg County watershed it hopes will be designated a wilderness area. George Buranyi ...

A council has lodged objections to controversial proposals to develop a sand and gravel quarry next to houses in the village of Preesall. The plans for Preesall, by developer Baxters, will be ...

The mineral rights of the San Rafael Rock Quarry have been purchased by CRH, an international group of building materials businesses based in Dublin, Ireland. CRH bought the rights from the Dutra ...

Plans for a new quarry are moving forward despite concerns raised over noise, dust and the effect on wildlife. Cemex has submitted a new planning application to Hampshire County Council and Dorset ...

An excavation at a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire in the U.K. has yielded a massive, downright prehistoric find—not one, not dozens, but hundreds of footprints left behind by dinosaurs of the ...

While excavating outside London, archaeologists discovered thousands of bones thrown down a quarry shaft in Roman times. But one, in particular, stood out: a dog's baculum (penis bone) that had ...