It seems to be a common thing, a quarry for the extraction of raw materials. But it is these careers that sometimes look like old computer games with pseudo-3D. Personally, I immediately had such an association.
Here are some more interesting types of such quarries.
Until now, the word `marble` is used to refer to different species that are similar to each other. Builders call marble any durable, polished limestone. Sometimes a similar breed of serpentinite is taken for marble. True marble on a light fracture resembles sugar. Thanks to impurities, this stone becomes variegated, spotted, moire, twisted and veined. A layer of pure, snow-white marble up to 30 centimeters thick shines through. Deposits of marble have been found in different parts of Russia.
Most of all, over 20 deposits are located in the Urals, but stone is mined from only 8 deposits. White marble is obtained at the Koelginsky and Aydyrlinsky deposits, gray marble is obtained from the Ufaleiskaya and Mramorskaya deposits, yellow comes from the Oktyabrsky and Pochinsky quarries, black marble comes from the Pershinskoye deposit, the pink-red stone comes from the Nizhne-Tagil deposit. In Altai and Western Siberia, more than 50 marble deposits are known, and three deposits are being developed here. The Pashtulim deposit produces a unique fine-grained white marble with red-green veins.
A lilac-pink stone is obtained at the Gramatushinsky deposit. Gray-cream marble comes from the Petenevsky quarry. There is a large Kibik-Kordonskoye deposit in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where more than twenty varieties of white, pale cream, pale pink, orange, yellow and greenish-gray marble are located. The Burovschina deposit in the Irkutsk region gives a reddish-pink coarse-grained stone with lilac, orange, green, gray shades. Moscow metro stations "Marksistskaya", "Tretyakovskaya" and others are decorated with this marble. In the Far East, a deposit of green marble with different shades has recently been explored and prepared for mining. The total reserves of facing stone in the CIS countries amount to several tens of billions of cubic meters, with at least 10 thousand decorative varieties. Now 411 fields have been fully explored with a reserve of 1.36 billion cubic meters. Half of these deposits are being developed.
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In the northwest of Russia, in the Republic of Karelia, the Leningrad Region and on the Kola Peninsula, red and pink granites are produced by the Vinga, Ukkomyaki and Shalskoe deposits. The yellow-pink stone is given by Mustavaar. The most famous is the Shoksha deposit. His stone was used in the construction of Napoleon's sarcophagus in Paris, the monument to Nicholas I in St. Petersburg, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. The gray-pink and red granite of the Kuzrechenskoye deposit in the Murmansk region won the recognition of architects and builders. The local stone is bought in Western Europe and Japan.
In the Leningrad region, at the Elizovsky deposit, a gray-brown stone is mined, reminiscent of the famous American granite "dacotamahogany". Ukraine has deposits of high-value granites. The most famous is the red stone of the Kapustinsky deposit, which is called "Rosso Santiago" in the European market. In the Krivoy Rog region there are deposits of black stone - blackstone, which is similar to the famous black Brazilian granite. Many marble deposits have been discovered and developed in Central Asia. The most powerful of them is Gazgan in Uzbekistan, where pink, cream, orange, yellow, gray and black facing stone is mined, which is identical to the well-known Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian varieties. Georgia is rich in marble deposits. Here in Moliti, Salieti, in Old and New Shrosha, red stone is mined,not inferior to French and Spanish red marble.
The most famous are the marbles of Italy. The famous white sculpted marble comes from Carrara, Tuscany. For many centuries, Carrara marble has been considered an extraordinary natural material, almost one of the wonders of the world - after all, it is able to transmit light to a depth of 4 cm! It was with him that Michelangelo worked. White, lustrous, easy to polish, this stone is still used today for the most sophisticated and sophisticated works in sculpture and architecture.
Parian yellowish marble, mined in Greece, also enjoys well-deserved fame. This stone served as material for the ancient Greek sculptors, whose works we admire today.
In the United States, significant layers of marble occur in the eastern part of the country, in the Appalachian Mountains and other regions. Marble is also mined in North Africa. A large deposit of dolomite marbles is located in Natal (South Africa).
There are also deposits of marble in Cuba, France, Norway and other countries.
There are large deposits of marble in Armenia and Georgia. In Armenia, the Ijevan, Aghveran, Khorvirab deposits of brown, pink and black marble are being developed; in Georgia - Lopotskoe, Molitskoe, Saliyetskoe deposits of gray, gray-red and red marble.
The republics of Central Asia are especially rich in marble deposits. Cream and pink marbles of Gazgan, gray, dark gray and pinkish marbles of Aman-Kutan deposits are known in Uzbekistan. And the white fine-grained sculptural marble of the Malguzar deposit in Uzbekistan, according to experts, even surpasses the famous Carrara.
By the way, the granite quarries: