Quarry land in Mandalay.

Workers' housing center at the quarry site.

See more photos of workers at the quarry site below

It was just a gravel pitch the first years.

They pummel the blocks for gravel and the steel bars inside.

The sidewalks are gravel. They flood when it rains, but they're green.

There is some evidence of a Bronze Age field system at the Batts Combe quarry site.

Nobel demonstrated his explosive for the first time that year, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones he has covered me with ashes.

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

Treatment of uric acid gravel by phosphate of soda , Medical Gazette , p. 689, 23 August 1844.

In the cities they work with sand, gravel and other aggregates that go into construction materials.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Verily We ! We sent upon them a gravel storm save the household of Lut them We delivered at early dawn .

Workers at a quarry in Ohn Chaw Village off the Mandalay Lashio road, near Mandalay. Photo and caption by Zaw Zaw The Irrawaddy

We saw these alternations between sediments that look like this there's gravel and cobbles in there and a bunch of sand.

Anyway, there we were, staring at each other, and he reaches down and grabs an armful of gravel and releases it in the jet of water entering the tank from the filtration system, and chk chk chk chk chk! this gravel hits the front of the glass and falls down.

There were no paved roads, and even gravel or dirt roads were scarce most of the terrain consisted of trackless forests and swamps.

In 1961, the Martin Company merged with the American Marietta Corporation, a large sand and gravel mining company, forming the Martin Marietta Corporation.

Well, you look at modern hunter gatherers like aboriginals, who quarried for stone axes at a place called Mount Isa, which was a quarry owned by the Kalkadoon tribe.

Iraq asserts that the effects of increased sand movement caused by military fortifications will be prevented by the gravel spreading remediation awarded in claim No. 5000450.

But Xi must now shift his focus from bagging another quarry to winning over new and perhaps unexpected allies. His long term success and that of China depends on it.

There, quarry workers earn a maximum of 4,000 kyat a day, and underage workers earn just over 2 an amount too little to take proper care of their consequential health problems.

The geologist in the field depends principally on them and on a few rough chemical and physical tests and to the practical engineer, architect and quarry master they are all important.

Grout is generally a mixture of water, cement, sand, often color tint, and sometimes fine gravel (if it is being used to fill the cores of concrete blocks).

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Any material or combination can be used as mulch, stones, leaves, cardboard, wood chips, gravel, etc., though in permaculture mulches of organic material are the most common because they perform more functions.

The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

For example, the Al Qaida cell that carried out the November 2003 bombings in Istanbul originally planned to rent a stone quarry in order to obtain dynamite legally, though they later abandoned this plan and used improvised explosives instead.

Find At a meeting of the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit had given him a fragment of the skull four years earlier.

Or you feel so secure that He will not send you back ( to sea ) again or send a gravel hurtling storm against you , and drown you for your ingratitude ? Then you will not find any avenger against Us .

Or you feel so secure that He will not send you back ( to sea ) again or send a gravel hurtling storm against you , and drown you for your ingratitude ? Then you will not find any avenger against Us .

The second strategy of research is to study a subject broadly searching for unknown phenomena or patterns of known phenomena like a hunter in what we call the naturalist's trance, the researcher of mind is open to anything interesting, any quarry worth taking.

A geoglyph is a large design or motif (generally longer than 4 metres) produced on the ground and typically formed by clastic rocks or similarly durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, live trees, gravel, or earth.

Having put the product into practice, we are actually now on the verge of selling the product onto a multinational to take it to the retail market, and one question I have for the audience today is, on the gravel roads of Limpopo, with an allowance of 50 rand a week, I came up with a way for the world not to bathe.