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Quarry is a resource in The Middle Ages, a scenario in Civilization III: Conquests.
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Quarrying was the most common means of extracting stone from hills during the Middle Ages. The oldest surface-mining technique in history, it consists essentially of digging a hole at the base of a hill known to have quality stone deposits and using masons and quarriers to dig out the biggest pieces (to be shaped later). Quarrying is an incredibly inefficient process, with a huge degree of waste in both material and labor (since all the useless rock around the good bits has to be carried out of the quarry). Nonetheless, until the development of underground mining techniques, most stone buildings were constructed from quarried stone, and quarries were highly coveted features of a lord's lands. A lord could often extract considerable prices for quarrying rights in his domain, when he had no need or desire to build a new castle.