Jerry Geake says it's been happening in the Slate Belt as long as he can remember. Old slate and limestone quarries that once employed workers have left behind deep pools -- invitations for young ...

Jon Hill stands at one of his company’s original quarries, which Greenstone has never used. Hill said the hole was probably dug around 1870 and that 500 men at a time worked in the pit removing slate.

Abandoned huts, sheds and slate equipment at Dinorwig Quarry provide a haunting reminder of an industry that once roofed the world. Yet long-time visitors are becoming angered by the way the quarry is ...

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CASTLETON — The town is having some trouble finding records related to a local slate quarry whose blasting operations saw large rocks landing in a residential neighborhood last summer. Jayne Nicklaw, ...

Slate production is set to return to the Isle of Luing after 60 years, raising hopes of jobs, housing and renewed life for the Hebridean ...

The Cullipool Slate Quarry on the Hebridean island of the Isle of Luig is set to reopen after its closure sixty years ago.

The body of a 49-year-old man was recovered Friday night from a quarry in Bangor. He had reportedly jumped from one of the Slate Belt quarry’s higher cliffs, more than 100 feet up, according to the ...