Definition of "quarrying" []

• Present participle of quarry. (verb)
• A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry. (noun)

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• "Ancient Egyptian quarrying is seen under its most striking aspect among extensive limestone or sandstone ranges, as at Turra and Silsilis; but the process by which the stone was extracted can nowhere be more distinctly traced than at Assûan."
• "Large-scale mineral exploitation such as quarrying leaves distinctive scars that, in the case of Earth, would eventually become obscured by overlying strata but would still show up in geological surveys."
• "The government may instead opt for a more tailored solution where some vulnerable types of mining are excluded, such as quarrying and salt mining, and others are given temporary exclusion and/or substantial new tax breaks."