Of interest for sustainable development is the group of non-metals that are made up of different rocks as building materials. At the same time, better quality deposits are extracted, lower quality depîosits are neglected. Over the last few decades, huge volumes of production waste have accumulated. In sandstone quarries, the volume of production waste is lower because the extracted material is used almost entirely. Certain environmental problems create the volume of rubble accumulated near the quarry. As a result of mining, there is a change in the use of cultivated land, pastures, relief changes, landscape degradation, occupation and degradation of large areas of land, hydrological imbalance, of the areas occupied by perennial crops, those covered with forest vegetation through reducing their surfaces, etc.