quarries
Hunted ones, collectively
Quarries is the plural of quarry, which has two distinct meanings.
A quarry is an open excavation for extracting stone, slate, or other materials: The marble came from quarries in Vermont.
Separately, a quarry is prey being hunted—the object of pursuit for a hunter, predator, or investigator: The detective tracked his quarry through the city.
As a verb, to quarry is to extract from a pit: They quarried granite for the monument.
mining
Extracting earth's resources
limestone · slate · gravel · sandstone · aggregate · extraction · blasting · drilling · open-pit · crusher
hunt
Pursuit of quarry
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- pursuitAct of chasing something
- stalkingStealthy, persistent pursuit
tracking · capture · target · game · chase · hounds · falconry · hunting · scent · fleeing
- stone thingsgranite, marble, limestone, sandstone, obsidian
- lime productionlime, quicklime, burnt lime, lime kiln, calcination
- mine reclamationreclamation, revegetation, ecological restoration, mine tailings, tailings
- Marble sourcesCarrara
- Gold RushCalifornia Gold Rush, gold miners, gold mining, gold flakes, gold nuggets
- off-roadingoff-road, 4x4s, ATVs, 4WD, four-wheel drive
quarriesmines
Ore extraction sites
underground mines · tunnels · shafts · deep mines · coal mines
quarrieslandfills
Engineered waste disposal sites
nature preserves · mounds · embankments · construction sites · conservation areas
- stone quarriesSites where rock is extracted
- marble quarriesSites extracting metamorphic rock
- granite quarriesSites mining crystalline rock
- limestone quarriesSites extracting sedimentary rock