Channeling his inner surveyor, developer Ron DeCesare looked out across the 39-acre abandoned slate quarry site he's been working to reclaim and marveled at the feat of it all. "It's amazing," ...

The slate industry was the economic lifeblood for generations of families and residents of the Slate Belt-- a place with a special vein of rock that lends its name to the region. Volunteers and donors ...

CASTLETON — The town is having some trouble finding records related to a local slate quarry whose blasting operations saw large rocks landing in a residential neighborhood last summer. Jayne Nicklaw, ...

Montpelier, it was said, had one of the best slate quarries in the United States. This statement from The Washington County Gazetteer (1889) may have spilled from the pen of a local booster or, ...

The aftermath of a huge "landslide" at a historic slate quarry has been caught on camera. An eyewitness filmed clouds of dust billowing from part of Dinorwig Quarry following the reported slippage ...

CCTV has been installed at a famous quarry after trespassing incidents. Vivian Quarry, on the edge of Eryri (Snowdonia) is part of the vast Dinorwig slate complex, once the world’s second largest ...