A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted. The only trivial difference between the two is that open-pit mines that produce building materials and dimension stone are commonly referred to as quarries.

How is quarrying different from mining?

Mining is the process of extracting buried material below the earth surface. Quarrying refers to extracting materials directly from the surface.

What is mining and quarrying industry?

6.1 The economic activities covered in this sector comprise extraction of minerals which occur in nature as solids, liquids or gases; underground and surface mines, quarries and oil wells, with all supplementary operations for dressing and beneficiating ores and other crude minerals such as crushing, screening, washing ...