Stone quarry
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Commerce
- Description: quarry where solid rock is excavated
- Also known as: “quarry”, “stone pit”, and “stone quarry”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Askim and Mysen.
Askim
Photo: Otebig, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Askim is a municipality in the county of Østfold, Norway. Askim centre had 13,822 inhabitants in 2014. It lies next to the longest river in Norway, Glomma, and has always been a strategic point in wars due to its bridges across the river.
Mysen
Photo: Colliekar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mysen is the administrative center of the municipality of Eidsberg in the county of Østfold in Norway. The town is named after the old farm of Mysen, since the town is built on its ground.
Stone quarry
- Categories: type of mining site, quarry, and underground mine
- Location: Indre Østfold Municipality, Østfold, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.62499° or 59° 37′ 30″ northLongitude
11.22073° or 11° 13′ 15″ eastOpen location code
9FFHJ6FC+X7OpenStreetMap ID
way 393884203OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=commercialWikidata ID
Q15115254
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Stone quarry” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Karxana”
- Bosnian: “Kamenolom”
- Croatian: “Kamenolom”
- Czech: “kamenolom”
- Danish: “stenbrud”
- Danish: “Stenbrud”
- Dutch: “steengroeve”
- Esperanto: “Ŝtonminejo”
- Estonian: “kivimurd”
- Estonian: “Kivimurd”
- Finnish: “kivilouhos”
- French: “carrière de pierre”
- French: “Carrière de pierre”
- German: “Steinbruch”
- Hungarian: “kőbánya”
- Hungarian: “kőfejtő”
- Kurdish: “Kana keviran”
- Macedonian: “Каменолом”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “steinbrudd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “stenbrudd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “steinbrot”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Steinbrot”
- Norwegian: “Steinbrudd”
- Pfaelzisch: “Steinbruch”
- Polish: “kamieniołom”
- Polish: “Kamieniołom”
- Romanian: “Carieră de piatră”
- Russian: “каменоломня”
- Serbian: “Каменолом”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kamenolom”
- Slovenian: “Kamnolom”
- Swedish: “stenbrott”
- Swedish: “Stenbrott”
- Turkish: “taş ocağı”
- Ukrainian: “каменоломня”
- Ukrainian: “каменярня”
- Ukrainian: “Каменярня”
- Upper Sorbian: “skała”
- Welsh: “chwarel maen”
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