This is a list of notable

quarries A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their environ ...

, worldwide. In Australia: * Bombo Headland Quarry Geological Site * Boogardie quarry *

Boya, Western Australia Boya is a locality on the Darling Scarp, in the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia; it is on the south side of Greenmount, Western Australia, Greenmount Hill, and just west of Darlington, Western Australia, Darlington. The name of Boya is a l ...

Cronulla sand dunes The Cronulla sand dunes, also known officially as the Cronulla Sand Dune and Wanda Beach Coastal Landscape, are an open space, heritage-listed nature conservation, and visitor attraction located on the Kurnell Peninsula at Lindum Road, Kurn ...

Moorooduc Quarry Flora and Fauna Reserve The Moorooduc Quarry Flora and Fauna Reserve is located in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia and occupies approximately 27 hectares of land. There are entrances to the reserve located on Allison Road, Canadian Bay Road, Two Bays Road and Station ...

* Mount Gibraltar Trachyte Quarries Complex *

Portland Cement Works Precinct Portland Cement Works Precinct is a heritage-listed former cement works and limestone quarries and now disused industrial site at Williwa Street, Portland, City of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed and built in various ...

Prospect Hill (New South Wales) Prospect Hill is a heritage-listed hill in Pemulwuy and Prospect in the greater western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Situated about west of central Sydney, the hill is Sydney's largest body of igneous rock and is higher than ...

* Seaham Quarry * Statham's Quarry In Canada: *

Butchart Gardens The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National ...

* Connolly's quarry *

Don Valley Brick Works The Don Valley Brick Works (often referred to as the Evergreen Brick Works) is a former quarry and industrial site located in the Don River Valley in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Don Valley Brick Works operated for nearly 100 years and provided ...

French Fort Cove The French Fort Cove is a nature park located in Miramichi, New Brunswick, between Newcastle and Nordin-Miramichi, which contains regular and advanced walking trails, canoeing, kayaking, paddle-boats, a children's playground, ice-cream shop and h ...

Hammerstone Project The Hammerstone Quarry Project was an expansion of Birch Mountain Resources' Muskeg Valley Quarry in Northern Alberta, north of Fort McMurray, in Fort McKay, where Birch Mountain owned mineral rights on nearly one million acres in the heart of th ...

Mary's Point Mary's Point is a wetland in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is at the head of the Bay of Fundy, just outside the small community of Harvey and approximately south of Moncton. Designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance on ...

Miron Quarry Miron or Mirón may refer to: * Miron (name) * Miron (surname) * El Mirón, a municipality in Ávila, Castile and León, Spain * El Mirón Cave, in the upper Asón River valley, Cantabria, Spain * 17049 Miron, 1 minor planet See also * Miron Cos ...

Queenston Queenston is a compact rural community and unincorporated place north of Niagara Falls in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered by Highway 405 to the south and the Niagara River to the east; its location at the eponym ...

Walcott Quarry The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the Phyllopod bed The Phyllopod bed, designated by USNM locality number 35k, is the most famous foss ...

In Germany: * Cotta Sandstone * Elbe Sandstone *

Grillenburg Sandstone Grillenburg Sandstone (german: Grillenburger Sandstein) and Niederschöna Sandstone (''Niederschönaer Sandstein'') belong to the Elbe Sandstones of central Europe. There used to be a number of sandstone quarries in the Tharandt Forest and its nei ...

Hohburg Hills The Hohburg Hills (german: Hohburger Berge), also called Hohburg Switzerland (''Hohburger Schweiz''), are located in the district of Nordsachsen near the eponymous village of Hohburg in the municipality of Lossatal in the German state of Saxony. ...

Königshain Hills The Königshain Hills (german: Königshainer Berge, Upper Sorbian: ''Limas'') lie in Eastern Upper Lusatia west of the town of Görlitz in the county of the same name. They are located north and south of the village of Königshain after wh ...

* Kriemhildenstuhl *

Mühlsteinbrüche The Mühlsteinbrüche ("Millstone Quarries") south of Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains in Saxony are a region of bizarre rock formations, which have been formed by the quarrying of sandstone for millstones and also by weathering processes. They a ...

Posta Sandstone Posta Sandstone (german: Postaer Sandstein) also called Wehlen Sandstone (''Wehlener Sandstein''), only occurs on the eastern banks of the River Elbe at Alte Poste, near Herrenleithe, Wehlen, Zeichen and Posta. The thickness of the deposit is ...

* Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone *

Waldenecksee The Waldenecksee or Petersee is a quarry lake on the western edge of the Northern Black Forest. It lies in an exclave of the municipality of Sinzheim, surrounded by Baden-Baden, between Iberg and Fremersberg on the western side of the hill of ...

Wunsiedel Marble Wunsiedel Marble (german: Wunsiedler Marmor) is a group of metamorphic carbonate rocks, which were, and are, mainly extracted in the German town Wunsiedel at several quarries. This Upper Franconian calcite marble occurs both in this region and beyo ...

In Italy: *

Carrara Carrara ( , ; , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, west-northwest o ...

, source of white marble including the block from which

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

's ''David'' was carved In Kosovo: * Çikatovë e Vjeter * Korroticë e Epërme In Russia *

Ruskeala Ruskeala (russian: Рускеала; ) is a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Within the framework of municipal divisions ...

In the United Kingdom *See :Quarries in the United Kingdom In the United States:

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