Description
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.
This dataset can be visualized on visualize.admin.ch.
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Additional information
- Identifier
- bb682732-ca6d-43f4-8c95-760b76004b22@bundesamt-fur-landestopografie-swisstopo
- Issued date
- October 1, 2017
- Modified date
- -
- Conforms to
- -
- Publisher
- Contact points
- milan.beres@swisstopo.ch
- Languages
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- English
- German
- French
- Italian
- Further information
- Landing page
- https://georessourcen.ethz.ch
- Documentation
- -
- Temporal coverage
- -
- Spatial coverage
- Schweiz
- Update interval
- Never
- Metadata Access
- API (JSON) Download XML