The Quarry

On the left bank of the Creuse, located on the hillside, Clairavaux's quarry has been extracting gneiss for nearly a century. The gneiss is processed on-site and then delivered to local construction and work companies. The production of gneiss aggregates from this quarry reaches 100,000 tonnes per year. The Clairavaux quarry was able to develop thanks, in part, to the immediate proximity of the railway. After the closure of the Felletin-Ussel section in 1979, Clairavaux station was subsequently destroyed. Despite the closure of the line, the convergence towards the bottom of the valley is still present today.