A high oblique aerial view of a small sandstone quarry set into green farmland: a compact worked area with buff faces and a few neat stockpiles, surrounded by thick woodland and hedged fields, a restored grassy slope along one edge, soft overcast light.

About

A new quarry company for Lancashire sandstone

Bazel Minerals is a new North West company, set up for sandstone extraction and crushing activities in Lancashire.

Wide view across Lancashire farmland to distant moorland hills, drystone walls and hedges, broken cloud and moving light.

What we doSandstone extraction and crushing activities in Lancashire.

That's the whole job, and we'd rather do it well than do more. We'll lift sandstone from the face, keep the best of it whole for walling, rockery and boulders, and crush and screen the rest into graded aggregates, sub-base and fill.

A sandstone quarry face after rain in early morning, the stone darkened to honey and rust where wet, puddles on the floor reflecting the face, mist in trees above. — Extract · Worked bed by bed, so good stone isn't wasted in the crusher.

How we mean to run it

Straight answers.

If our stone suits your job, we'll say so. If it doesn't, we'll say that too.

Local stone for local jobs.

Lancashire sandstone for Lancashire walls, gardens, farms and builds.

Worn work gloves and a hard hat resting on a squared sandstone block on a quarry floor on the hat.

A newly planted double hedgerow of young hawthorn and hazel in guards along a field edge on restored pasture, fresh soil, distant fields. — Restoration · New hedges link the restored ground to the fields.

Care for the land.

Work to the conditions, keep the neighbours informed, and put the ground back when we're done with it.

A sandstone quarry face lit warm orange by the last evening sun, long shadows across the beds, trees in silhouette along the top, a bare level floor with a few loose blocks. — The same warm buff you see in Lancashire's walls and farmhouses.

A stone that belongs here

Sandstone is the stone of much of Lancashire: the field walls, the farmhouses, the terraces, the gate piers. It splits along its beds into workable pieces and weathers to warm buffs and greys. Crushed, it makes a sound, workable aggregate for drainage, bedding and base.

Where we are now

We're getting ready to open. Pre-orders are open now, so you can tell us what you'll need before the first stone leaves the quarry.

Straight top-down aerial of five neat conical stockpiles of crushed sandstone in different sizes on a quarry floor, graphic circles and shadows. — Graded stockpiles, ready as we open.

Flat straight-on texture of a naturally split sandstone face, gentle relief, warm honey tones.

Opening soon

Get your name down

We're getting ready to open. Tell us what you'll need and roughly when, and we'll be in touch as we open to arrange collection or delivery.