Imagine the heat in the summer, the bitter cold in the winter, and Mandela going out to quarry stone, the burning white light reflecting off the limestone permanently and deeply injuring his sight.

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Parisians can be buried alongside Berlioz, Degas and Nijinsky in the cemetery at Montmartre, which was dug out of an old chalk quarry that had been used as a communal grave during the French Revolution.

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Her burned-out Renault Clio was found near a disused quarry near her New Brighton home a week later.

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Until now, the search for her has been concentrated on a disused quarry site at Alltami, where her burnt-out car was discovered nearby.

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Chiseling quarry waste into blocks, she hurt her thumb and several fingers while figuring out how to hold a piece of sandstone in place with her foot in order to shape it to the desired size.

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Police say the search for her remains focussed around a quarry, pools and woodland in Pinfold Lane, Alltami, where her burnt-out car was discovered.

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It turned out that the concrete was made using beach-sand that was not properly desalinated, rather than more expensive quarry-sand.

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