“When we saw our first massive mountains of basalt dust,” she says, “we knew that this could actually be a meaningful solution.” 50,000 tons of stone are blown up at the Sunrock Quarry in ...

The basalt quarry, straddling the border with Wayne, is a century old, and it has remained in the Braen family for more than 75 years. Philip DeVencentis is a local reporter for NorthJersey.com.

Earlier, a basalt quarry was granted clearance in the same village this year in less than a month. The Goa-SEIAA approved the proposal under certain conditions.

The basalt found in Duluth's abandoned quarry shared properties with a sample brought to Earth on Apollo 11, so researchers ground down the basalt into the very first lunar simulant.

Controversial basalt quarry north of Innisfail gets green light. Despite concern raised about environmental impacts conditional approval has been granted for the construction of a controversial ...

Plans to convert farmland near Wallan into the city’s most water-wise suburb have stalled as the Victorian government considers a competing proposal to open a quarry.

Goldich found the lunar material had striking similarities to a sample he took from a 50-meter-long basalt band stretching across the face of West Duluth’s abandoned quarry, now Quarry Park.