Quarry definition

Quarry means a pit, excavation, or other place made by any means for the purpose of removing Construction Materials or a site identified for such purposes, and includes works, machinery, plants, and buildings below or above ground belonging to or used in connection with a Quarry.
Quarry means the excavation, processing, and stockpiling of gravel, stone, sand, earth, clay fill, or other similar substances.
Quarry means any work or undertaking in which granular materials are removed from the ground or the land by any method, and includes all ways, works, machinery, plant, buildings and premises belonging to or used in connection with the quarry. (carrière)

Examples of Quarry in a sentence

  • Total investment of Apo Land and Quarry Corporation,, total fixed assets, net of depreciation and amortization is Php Million.


More Definitions of Quarry

Quarry means a facility or operation that obtains stone from the earth by means of cutting, digging, excavating, or blasting.
Quarry means an open surface excavation or pit created for the purpose of extracting stone, rock, sand and gravel.
Quarry means a place where consolidated rock has been or is being removed by means of an open excavation to supply material for construction, industrial or manufacturing purposes but does not include a wayside quarry or open pit metal mine.
Quarry means an excavation or system of excavations made for the purpose of, or in connection with, the getting of minerals (whether in their natural state or in solution or suspension) or products of minerals, being neither a mine nor merely a well or bore-hole or a well and bore-hole combined, and shall be deemed to include-
Quarry means a place where aggregate has been or is being removed from an open excavation made in a solid mass of igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rock or any combination of these which, prior to removal, was integral to the parent mass.
Quarry means an open or surface working in bedrock for the extraction of nonmetallic materials, usually construction stone, including those no longer in operation.
Quarry or “open cut” or “open pit” means a surface mining operation in which mineral or rock is extracted from the earth by excavating into a natural surface gradient and includes —