The rocks in question, quartzite, were discovered by researchers at Columbia University, thanks to a grant from the National Geographic Society, Fox News reported. They had heard about them from a ...

A Long Island man has been killed in a grisly industrial accident. Suffolk County Police say 52-year-old Hector Vicenty was crushed by two 800-pound slabs of quartzite. He was working Wednesday at ...

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