In a 2018 photo, an overview of the deep 250-foot quarry area at Swenson Granite. It is time-consuming and expensive to move things and people into and out of a 250-foot hole. The difficulty isn’t ...

Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson Granite Quarry has expanded operations slightly on Rattlesnake Hill, even as it starts reconfiguring its approach to ...

It seems unthinkable that a time would come when the Granite State no longer produces granite. But last month, the last commercial granite quarry in New Hampshire was quietly shut down and its ...

SALISBURY — At their Nov. 8 meeting, the Salisbury City Council voted to approve their part of the annexation agreement that the city has been working on with the town of Granite Quarry through out ...

PAKISTAN, while blessed with enormous wealth of mineral resources, has not been able to commercially exploit most of its reserves optimally due to a variety of constraints, such as that of ...

This story is the latest installment in "Past Times," a series about Fall River the way people remember it and the way history recorded it. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble would have been right at ...