Quarries

Around a flooded quarry, you can still find traces of the exploitation of yesteryear, such as lime kilns, a rusted portal crane, brick tunnels and a loading quay to transport blocks of stone.

The Cul du Mont forest's flank is littered with the Linglé slate quarry's ruins.

After over fifty years of disuse, this old quarry was cleaned up and made accessible to the general public again.

'Welsh Slate' dominated the north-west economy of Wales from 1850 onwards. Slate was exploited in dozens of quarries, such as in the smaller Rhos, on a flank of the Moel Siabod mountain in Snowdonia.

For centuries, stonemasons knocked and drilled slates in the quarries of Wales, such as in Dinorwic. This was once the second-largest slate quarry in the world.

With the closure of the Saint-Quentin headframe in 1971, slate mining in Rimogne, France, ended.