New quarries could be shielded from virtually any county or municipal oversight, including the controversial open-pit limestone mine proposed for Parleys Canyon, under a bill unveiled Monday in the ...

The proponent of a controversial limestone quarry in Parleys Canyon has named Granite Construction as its operator, according to a website launched this week to promote the project that has drawn ...

Vail-area residents who don't want three open-pit limestone quarries in the foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains will host a forum later this month to rally more opposition. Meanwhile state officials ...

The Lemont limestone story begins eons before there was a Chicago with a Water Tower and Holy Name Cathedral, both built with locally mined stone that slowly turns from white to yellowish. Four ...

WESTFIELD, Ind. -- The decorative architectural products in Custom Cast Stone's showroom look and feel like limestone taken from Indiana quarries. But the artificial stones really are concrete casts ...

QUINCY (CBS) – You might have heard Quincy referred to as the "Granite City." The nickname is well earned. The city was once the center of the granite-mining industry in the country. "In 1909, 146 ...

A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...

It turns out that the very stones used to build the Alamo came from the San Antonio Zoo. Alamo officials on Thursday confirmed that limestone from a historic quarry that once existed at the zoo’s ...