The Virtual Quarry,aimed at teachers and young schoolchildren at key stages 2 and 3, was launched in January for the Quarry Products Association.

CPR Works Managing Director Colin Carr said: "It has shown once and for all that websites can level the playing field. We've been in business more than a decade as a small but successful West Midlands based company with just five staff and a network of key strategic partners.

"But it's about having the right talent on board and a client with vision, allowing us to compete at the highest level with any size department or agency team."

The winning website was launched by the Quarry products Association to help teachers with an interest in quarrying and geography plan their lessons and to de-mystify what goes on behind the quarry gates.

Its communications director, Elizabeth Clements said: "It's a safe on-line environment, where children can see how quarrying materials are used to build a town, they can drive a lorry through the quarry gates and interact with the quarry manager and other key staff to find out what really goes on in a typical UK quarry."

They can also help to restore a cartoon quarry, examine fossils through a virtual microscope and even enter a 'rock cinema'.