The death rate is higher than the average rate for other dangerous jobs such as quarrying, logging and coal mining. From Wordnik.com. [People's Weekly World Blog] Reference
NSK has introduced a range of sealed-clean spherical roller bearings (SRB) for use in industries such as quarrying and construction, and paper and steel making. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference
The cost of quarrying and crushing was as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Stone quarrying has been expensive and wasteful heretofore. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session] Reference
St. Lawrence Seaway, and are bringing down costs in quarrying. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session] Reference
Peru agriculture 5. 9\%, mining and quarrying 0. 4\%, manufacturing. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
In short, they had to invent the art of quarrying and working mines. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
In stone quarrying, jet spalling and channeling are proven techniques. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session] Reference
In quarrying limestone, where the face of the quarry was only 5 to 6 ft. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The cost of quarrying and crushing the stone, and mixing the concrete on. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Such explosives are therefore to be avoided in quarrying of stone blocks. From Wordnik.com. [2. QUARRYING] Reference
I have been quarrying, and draining, and clearing, and I don't know what all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
Of all the building crafts, quarrying required the least skill and the most muscle. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
It is largely used in blasting, pit sinking, quarrying, &c., but especially in coal mining. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
Those he put to work quarrying stone and building the solid structure afterward named Colton's Hall. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
Isolated instances of quarrying stone are known to have occurred in the last century; but they are rare. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
The "4 men quarrying" barred out and sledged the stone to sizes that would enter a 9×16-in. jaw crusher. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
But the officer persisted; he was sent up and reported to the deputy warden, who set him to quarrying rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
These strata are of great thickness, and have numerous outcrops that permit of their being worked by quarrying. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
Africa, and were of course broken, as a promise to supply green cheese by quarrying the moon would have been broken. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Worst of all was the sore labour of quarrying stone for building, and carrying it down from the mountains to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
The British empire gives occupation to more than one-third of the persons employed in mining and quarrying in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The route now bears right and soon reaches a high and desolate plateau littered with the debris of many years quarrying. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Thus the quarrying and dressing aspects of the projects would be limited to hand selection and transporting to the kiln. From Wordnik.com. [5. Technical Account of a 3 Tonne/Day Limeburning Operation in Moshaneng, Botswana] Reference
They are developing facts which will be of great value to all engineers or contractors engaged in tunneling or quarrying. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference
Just beyond the wall is a vertical drop where the seaward side of the cliff has been sheared off by centuries of quarrying. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Somerset] Reference
Trinidad and Tobago: construction and utilities 12. 4\%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14\%, agriculture 9. 5\%, services. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Labor force: 8 million (1992) by occupation: agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, transport, services. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
In quarrying and crushing New Jersey trap rock with gyratory crushers the following was the cost of producing 200 cu.yds. per day. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Labor force - by occupation: construction and utilities 12. 4\%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14\%, agriculture 9. 5\%, services. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Labor force -- by occupation: construction and utilities 12. 4\%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14\%, agriculture 9. 5\%, services. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
The railway which had its terminus at Llangynog has well served an important quarrying and agricultural district, but it has never flourished financially. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
Labor force: 404,500 by occupation: construction and utilities 13\%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14\%, agriculture 11\%, services 62\% (1993 est.). From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Providence bestows her favors frugally; and with the power of quarrying out huge lumps of thought, ability to work them over into graceful form is rarely given. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Westerly, R.I., has also been engaged in quarrying this valuable rock for many years, most of its choicer specimens having been wrought for monumental purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
The country through which we passed was barren in the extreme, honey-combed all the way from quarrying the soil, which is full of salt and soda with a white chalky base. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
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