The quarry is owned and run by Cemex, which extracts sand and gravel from the site.
If approved the quarry would release five million tonnes of new sand and gravel reserves.
Major activities in the area are agriculture, forest management, sand and gravel extraction, industry (diverse types), and ecotourism.
Days ago bused-in prison inmates worked shoulder to shoulder with the National Guard and local volunteers to build a makeshift floodwall of sand and gravel.
He said its closure would hit "the only source of employment in the area, mainly local sand and gravel companies which traded with the Republic".
Mr. CHRIS LOVE (Sand And Gravel Worker): Here, we welcome him.
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So, for example, a 300-acre plant near Dallas takes Bridgeport's sand and gravel and turns it into concrete pipes as big as 12 feet in diameter.
Down at Calabar's river-front marina, not far from Taylor's hilltop residence, sand and gravel worker Chris Love(ph) says the former Liberian leader is welcome to stay in Nigeria.
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To make ends meet Van Nieuwenhuyse, now 50, had to turn NovaGold into a sand-and-gravel producer in western Alaska.
Fracking uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations and release oil and natural gas deep underground.
He had a striking story, having survived the plunge in metal prices in 2001 by turning NovaGold into a sand-and-gravel producer in western Alaska.
They claim holes left in the sea bed from ships extracting gravel and sand are being refilled with sand from the shoreline of their local beaches.
Stony ridges gave way to tumbled boulders, slopes of sifted gravel, and then sand, blown into shifting dunes.
We also dig out some 110 mcm of gravel, sand, aggregates and clay.
Use a shovel to clear snow out of the way of the wheels and pour cat litter, sand or gravel in front of the wheels to help get traction.
Although feet were designed to walk barefoot on Earth's natural surfaces (grass, sand or gravel), they were not prepared to endure the concrete, asphalt and steel that covers so many landscapes today, Thompson said.
Bar: fully or partially submerged mound of sand, gravel or other unconsolidated material built on the sea-bottom in shallow water by waves and currents.
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