For starters, let’s distinguish between mining and quarrying. Mining involves taking an economically useful material from the ground. Substances that are mined include ores, coal, evaporites, and precious stones and metals. Quarrying is the cutting or digging of stone, and related materials, from an excavation site or pit and it usually leaves behind a large hole in the ground.[efn_note]”A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground. A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted. The only trivial difference between the two is that open-pit mines that produce building materials and dimension stone are commonly referred to as quarries.”[/efn_note]
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