Earth:List of quarries

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This is a list of notable quarries, worldwide. In Australia:

  • Bombo Headland Quarry Geological Site
  • Boogardie quarry
  • Boya, Western Australia
  • Cronulla sand dunes
  • Moorooduc Quarry Flora and Fauna Reserve
  • Mount Gibraltar Trachyte Quarries Complex
  • Portland Cement Works Precinct
  • Prospect Hill (New South Wales)
  • Seaham Quarry
  • Statham's Quarry

In Canada:

  • Butchart Gardens
  • Connolly's quarry
  • Don Valley Brick Works
  • French Fort Cove
  • Hammerstone Project
  • Mary's Point
  • Miron Quarry
  • Queenston
  • Walcott Quarry

In Germany:

  • Cotta Sandstone
  • Elbe Sandstone
  • Grillenburg Sandstone
  • Hohburg Hills
  • Klunst
  • Königshain Hills
  • Kriemhildenstuhl
  • Mühlsteinbrüche
  • Posta Sandstone
  • Reinhardtsdorf Sandstone
  • Waldenecksee
  • Wunsiedel Marble

In Italy:

  • Carrara, source of white marble including the block from which Michelangelo's David was carved

In Kosovo:

  • Çikatovë e Vjeter
  • Korroticë e Epërme

In Russia

  • Ruskeala

In the United Kingdom

In the United States:

See also

  • List of lime kilns, many being near limestone quarries

References