Broken rock: mining

Broken hard rock refers to gravel, grit and rubble that is extracted from hard rock in quarries and then mechanically broken down into small pieces. It is used primarily in constructing and maintaining traffic infrastructure. This dataset shows the active and decommissioned broken rock (stone) quarries in Switzerland. It is part of the Resources Information System of the Swiss Geotechnical Commission (SGTK), a database of mineral resources in Switzerland.

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Identifier	bb682732-ca6d-43f4-8c95-760b76004b22@bundesamt-fur-landestopografie-swisstopo
Title for URL of the dataset	gebrochene-gesteine-abbau3
Schedule the publication of the dataset	-
Issued date	October 1, 2017
Modification date	-
Conforms to	-
Update interval	Never
Temporal coverage	-
Publisher Information	Bundesamt für Landestopografie
Contact points	milan.beres@swisstopo.ch
Languages	English German French Italian
URL	https://georessourcen.ethz.ch
Relation	https://map.georessourcen.ethz.ch/ https://www.geologieportal.ch/de/themen/resources/steine-und-erden.html geocat.ch permalink
Spatial	Schweiz
Related datasets	-
Documentation	-
Keywords	lithology conservation-and-ar... petrography built-structure geotechnics geology fsdi-federal-spatia...
Terms of use	ClosedData
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