The town, originally a small port and fishing village flourished in the Victorian era, when it first became a significant quarrying port and later a seaside resort for the rich of the day.

Milling of the red gum timber became an important industry, and charcoal burning, tanning, quarrying and brick making also flourished.

Bluestone quarrying became a major enterprise in the area starting in the mid-19th century.

There has been limestone quarrying since the mid-19th century on the Penrhyn Bay side.

Slate tiles were used in 19th century UK building construction ( apart from roofs ) and in slate quarrying areas such as Blaenau Ffestiniog & Bethesda, Wales there are still many buildings wholly constructed of slate.

Late 19th century industries included farming, brick-making, soap-making, and quarrying.

During its history Quincy has been known as a manufacturing and heavy industry center, with granite quarrying dominating employment in the 19th century and shipbuilding at Fore River Shipyard and Squantum Victory Yard rising to prominence in the 20th century.

* Byford brickworks ( State Brickworks ), shale scar visible from early 20th century to WW2 quarrying.

* Armadale brickworks ( State Brickworks ), Bedfordale Hill, shale scar visible from 20th century quarrying, with an underground rail bypassing the South Western Highway to transport the ore.

This destruction continued during the Spanish conquest and colonial period, and during 19th century and the early 20th century, and has included quarrying stone for building and railroad construction and target practice by military personnel.

During the 19th century, industries developed the manufacture of soap and alkali, quarrying, shipbuilding, engineering and tanning.

These lakes, known as the Chipping Norton Lakes, are the result of sand mining and quarrying operations in the twentieth century.

The firm of Poynder and Medlicott began quarrying on the Snodland-Halling border in the early 19th century and the company was taken over by William Lee in 1846.

However, quarrying may have taken place on the hillside as early as the 15th century.

In the 20th century, the palace was demolished and the ground in front of the lodge was excavated for sand quarrying.

By the beginning of the 20th century the wall had disappeared, the rocks having been taken away by early visitors as souvenirs, rolled down the rockface, or removed by the commercial quarrying operation.

While fishing is likely the town's oldest industry, quarrying has been important to the town and the local area since at least the 1st century AD.

When the Romans left Britain, quarrying largely ceased until the 12th century.

However, the arrival of more modern quarrying techniques in the 17th century resulted in an increase in production.

The fine-grained texture of the mud silt forming the limestone from the Solnhofen area ( which is composed mainly of the towns of Solnhofen and Eichstätt ) is ideal for making lithographic plates, and extensive quarrying in the 19th century revealed many fossil finds, as commemorated in the name Archaeopteryx lithographica, all the specimens of which come from these deposits.

The industrial quarrying of granite at Penmaenan began in the early 19th century with the forming of the Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co .. As the industry grew, workers and their families flocked to Penmaenmawr from all over north-west Wales and beyond.

Haslingden is notable for its stone quarrying, and Haslingden Flag ( a quartz-based sandstone ) was exported throughout the country in the 19th century with the opening up of the rail network.

In the 19th century celestine was discovered in Leigh Court estate and the Miles family authorised quarrying.

The main industry in the 18th and 19th century was farming although there was also extensive quarrying.

Gravel and aggregate pits such as the operation to the south of Elizabeth Sutherland Memorial School ( now a fine baseball diamond ) helped provide material for building local roads until the late 1950s, and in the early part of the 20th century there was a granite quarrying operation in what is now the northern portion of Long Lake Provincial Park: much of this granite can still be seen in historic buildings and walls in downtown Halifax.

These include emissions of airborne pollution in the form of dust, gases, noise and vibration when operating machinery and during blasting in quarries, and damage to countryside from quarrying.

Equipment to reduce dust emissions during quarrying and manufacture of cement is widely used, and equipment to trap and separate exhaust gases are coming into increased use.

The area was once home to eight different caves, several of which were discovered during quarrying operations to remove rock for highway construction.

Known as the Tudek and Houserville Sites, they were used during the Archaic period for the quarrying and reduction of stone tools made of jasper.

A sector which has gained preeminence during the last 20 years is marble quarrying and processing, it happens mostly in the Novelda and Pinós area.

The area continued to be a major centre for freestone quarrying during the 19th Century, supplying many major municipal building projects in Glasgow, such as Sir George Gilbert Scott's new Glasgow University main building ( the second largest Gothic Revival building in Britain ).

Brickmaking, lime kilns, iron ore mining, quarrying and coal mining were established during this period along with a canal to transport goods to the docks at Newport.

In 1860 Mortimer's curiosity was excited by the discovery of human remains during the quarrying of a barrow on Painsthorpe Wold.

Quarrying on the Hill was not a new phenomenon, but the increase in demand for Argillite aggregate ( for construction ) during the oil boom of the 1970s led to an expansion of quarrying to the point where it appeared that the entire Hill would be removed.

Tansley grew during the Industrial Revolution, its main industry being the quarrying of millstone grit ( for making mill-stones, now adopted as the symbol of the Peak District National Park ).

The fort was destroyed by quarrying during the late twentieth century.

Several Roman finds including gold coins of Augustus, Nero, and Drusus, two silver denarii of Vespasian and a Roman cornelian ring were found at the site during quarrying.

Most of the summit of the hill is affected by man-made, the result of hill fort construction during the Bronze and Iron Ages and, more recently, by years of mining for coal and quarrying for dhustone ( dolerite ) to be used in road-building.

Some of the stones used in construction of the building was purchased from the Industrial Plantation, where poor Jews assisted in quarrying and shaping the blocks.

Industrial wastewater treatment is the treatment of wet wastes from manufacturing industry and commerce including mining, quarrying and heavy industries

* Industrial wastewater treatment – the treatment of wet wastes from manufacturing industry and commerce including mining, quarrying and heavy industries.

Industrial and agricultural wheeled loaders from compact 6 tonne hydrostatic machines to larger 25 tonne quarrying machines using a mix of 4 and 6 cylinder diesel engines.

* Industrial wastewater treatment – the treatment of wet wastes from manufacturing industry and commerce including mining, quarrying and heavy industries.