Angelo Gandolfi / Slate quarry in the Cantabrian range, Spain. July 2008.

Graham Eaton / European Eel (Anguilla anguilla) swimming over debris in an abandoned slate quarry, North Wales, UK, October 2009

Gary K. Smith / Marsh Helleborine {Epipactis palustris} flowering in disused quarry, Norfolk, UK, July

Gary K. Smith / Marsh Helleborine {Epipactis palustris} flowering in disused quarry, Norfolk, UK, July

Niall Benvie / Solitary Roseroot (Rhodiola sp) growing in basalt quarry, Suduroy, the Faroe Islands, Denmark. June 2006

Niall Benvie / Detail of quarried basalt, Suduroy, Faroe Islands, Denmark. June 2006

Jason Smalley / Barnack Hills and Hollows nature reserve, old quarry re-colonised, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Jason Smalley / Disused quarry re-colonised by vegetation, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, England, UK.

Michael Hutchinson / Quarry cleared on wooded hillside, viewed from Furzebeam Hill, Nr Great Torrington, Devon, UK.

Elizabeth White / Shell blocks from quarry, Hamelin pool, Western Australia

Duncan Mcewan / Marble quarry, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

Jose B. Ruiz / Marble quarry, Pinoso, Alicante, Spain