'quarrying' is a legitimate word used in written English.
It is a verb meaning the act of extracting stone or other materials from a quarry. For example, "The team has been quarrying the marble for the past two weeks."
The Egyptians developed techniques for cutting soft rocks with copper saws and hollow reed drills, both surrounded by an abrasive, a technique probably used first for quarrying stone blocks and later in excavating temple rooms inside rock cliffs.
By 42,000 years ago the inhabitants were quarrying red and black hematite ore for cosmetic purposes on the top of the Ngwenya massif (where in 1964 a large opencut mining operation was developed to exploit the rich ore deposit).
The three most common types of surface mining are open-pit mining, strip mining, and quarrying.
Instead, most synthetic diamond is produced as grit or small crystals that are used to provide hard coatings for industrial equipment such as grinding wheels, machine tools, wire-drawing dies, quarrying saws, and mining drills.
Pepi's courtiers also led quarrying expeditions to various parts of Egypt, and remains of a temple of the king have been found deep in the Nile River delta.
A second multiple use is the opportunity to reduce present surface quarrying for crushed stone aggregate by using the dolomitic limestone mined from the deep tunnels and caverns.
The third region is one of mining, quarrying, and agriculture, and it spans much of the southern portion of the state.
Slate and granite quarries were developed by their owners; quarrying villages sprang up, and ports flourished.
Immigrants from northern Italy carried with them centuries of quarrying and stone-carving tradition to Barre and other granite-producing areas, giving Barre a character quite different from what visitors might expect to find in a Vermont city.
