quarry

1. 1. A hunted animal; prey.
   2. Hunted animals considered as a group; game.
2. An object of pursuit: The police lost their quarry in the crowd.

[Middle English querre, entrails of a deer given to hounds as a reward, from Old French cuiriee, alteration (influenced by cuir, skin) of coree, from Vulgar Latin *corāta, viscera, from Latin cor, heart.]

1. An open excavation or pit from which stone is obtained by digging, cutting, or blasting.
2. A rich or productive source: found the book an indispensable quarry of information.

1. To obtain (stone) from a quarry, as by cutting, digging, or blasting.
2. To extract (facts, for example) by long, careful searching: finally quarried out the genealogy from hundreds of sources.
3. To use (land) as a quarry.

[Middle English quarey, from Medieval Latin quareria, quareia, alteration of Old French quarriere, from *quarre, cut stone, from Latin quadrum, square.]

1. A square or diamond shape.
2. A pane of glass having this shape.

[Variant of QUARREL².]

1. An open excavation at the earth’s surface from which building stone is extracted.
2. Same as quarry glass.

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For other uses, see Quarry (disambiguation).

Portland Stone quarry on the Isle of Portland, England

A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel. They are often colocated with concrete and asphalt plants due to the requirement for large amounts of aggregate in those materials.

Contents 1 Problems 1.1 Quarry swimming 2 Types of rock 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Problems

Quarries in level areas with shallow groundwater or which are located close to surface water often have engineering problems with drainage. Generally the water is removed by pumping while the quarry is operational, but for high inflows more complex approaches may be required. For example, the Coquina quarry is excavated to more than 60 feet (18 m) below sea level. To reduce surface leakage, a moat lined with clay was constructed around the entire quarry. Ground water entering the pit is pumped up into the moat. As a quarry becomes deeper water inflows generally increase and it also becomes more expensive to lift the water higher during removal - this can become the limiting factor in quarry depth. Some water-filled quarries are worked from beneath the water, by dredging.

Many people and municipalities consider quarries to be eyesores and require various abatement methods to address problems with noise, dust, and appearance. One of the more effective and famous examples of successful quarry restoration is Butchart Gardens in Victoria.

Many quarries naturally fill with water after abandonment and become lakes. Others are made into landfills.

Quarry swimming

Water-filled quarries can be very deep with water, often 50 feet or more, that is often surprisingly cold. Unexpectedly cold water can cause a swimmer's muscles to suddenly weaken; it can also cause shock and even hypothermia.^[1] Though quarry water is often very clear, submerged quarry stones and abandoned equipment make diving into these quarries extremely dangerous. Several teenagers and young men and women drown in quarries each year.^[2][3] However, many inactive quarries are converted into safe swimming sites.

Types of rock

An abandoned construction aggregate quarry near Adelaide, South Australia

An abandoned limestone quarry

Types of rock extracted from quarries include:

• Cinder
• Chalk
• China Clay
• Clay
• Coal
• Coquina
• Construction aggregate (sand and gravel)
• Globigerina Limestone (Malta)
• Granite
• Gritstone
• Gypsum
• Limestone
• Marble
• Ores
• Phosphate rock
• Sandstone
• Slate

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Quarries

• Coal mining
• Clay pit
• Collecting fossils
• Gravel pit
• Kouloura
• List of minerals
• List of rock types
• List of stones
• Miner
• Mountaintop removal mining

References

1. ^ American Canoe Association explanation of cold shock
2. ^ US Dept. of Labor list of mine related fatalities
3. ^ Quarry Products Association article on quarry drownings^{[dead link]}

External links

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - vildt, fangst, byttedyr

2.
n. - udgravning, stenbrud
v. tr. - udgrave, bryde, granske

3.
n. - (rombeformet) glasrude

Nederlands (Dutch)
delven, napluizen (in bronnen), afgraving, steengroeve, ruitvormige glasplaat/tegel, prooi, informatiebron

Français (French)
1.
n. - gibier, proie

2.
n. - carrière
v. tr. - extraire

3.
n. - carreau de verre (en forme de losange)

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Beute

2.
n. - Steinbruch, Fundgrube
v. - fördern, brechen, herumstöbern

3.
n. - Quaderstein

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λατομείο (κν. νταμάρι), (μτφ.) πλούσια πηγή, θήραμα, λεία, κυνήγι
v. - ψάχνω, αντλώ, λατομώ, εξορύσσω (σε λατομείο)

Italiano (Italian)
estrarre, cavare fuori, ricavare, cava, bottino

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pedreira (f), fonte de informação (f) (fig.), caça (f), vidraça (f)
v. - extrair pedras, buscar informações

Русский (Russian)
разрабатывать карьер, карьер, добыча, каменоломня, преследуемый

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - presa

2.
n. - cantera, mina
v. tr. - extraer, sacar

3.
n. - vidrio o teja en forma de rombo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stenbrott, kunskapskälla, guldgruva (bildl.)
v. - bryta (sten), leta/gräva fram, forska, gräva (bildl.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 猎物, 被追逐的目标

2. 石场, 丰富源泉, 露天矿场, 来源, 从采石场采得, 从努力发掘

3. 方形玻璃, 菱形玻璃, 方形石, 菱形石

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 獵物, 被追逐的目標

2.
n. - 石場, 豐富源泉, 露天礦場, 來源
v. tr. - 從採石場採得, 從努力發掘

3.
n. - 方形玻璃, 菱形玻璃, 方形石, 菱形石

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 사냥물, 먹이, 추구의 목적

2.
n. - 채석장, 원천, 출처
v. tr. - 채석하다, ~에 채석장을 내다, (찾으려고)더듬거리다

3.
n. - 네모(마름모)의 유리판, 사각형 타일

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 獲物, 追求されるもの, 石切場, 石切り場, 採石場, 源泉, 出所
v. - 切り出す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مقلع, محجر, لعب المطاردة, فريسه المطاردة, نوع من السهم ذي رأس, مربع, حجر مربع (فعل) يحتجر, يتفحص, يطارد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חיה נרדפת, טרף‬
n. - ‮מחצבה, מאגר/מקור מידע‬
v. tr. - ‮נבר, חיפש, חצב‬
n. - ‮שמשה מעויינת, אריח רצפה לא מזוגג‬

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