Fewer quarries operate now compared with the past, but their scale is much bigger than ever before. The Peak District limestone is particularly pure (high in calcium carbonate), especially near to Buxton. There are many uses for limestone:
and our demand for these products led to a rapid increase in limestone extraction across the Peak District since the 1950s, reaching a peak in 1991 but more recently significantly falling.
Benefits: Economic
The need for limestone
o Demand is 255 million tonnes/year for the UK
o Mostly used in road building as an aggregate also food, medical and general construction
o Avoids costly imports
o Disused quarries can then be used for landfill or for recreation such as rock-climbing
Creates jobs to set off the Multiplier effect 1:5
o Mendips alone gets £150 million revenue annually
o £40 million straight into local economy
Benefits: Environmental
o Old quarries now restored are SSSIs
o Disused quarries can eventually be used as nature reserves
o Abandoned or active quarries are useful resources for geologists
o Leisure use of restored quarries
(1) Making concrete when burnt and mixed with appropriate amounts of clay
(2) Limestone of suitable quality is a good dimension stone which can be used for building
(3) Limestone can be used as an aggregate ( crushed rock)
(4) Limestone can be used as a feedstock in some industrial processes, for example desulphurisation of coal-fired power station flue gasses, in iron and steel production or in fertilizer production.
you need to quarry limestone because it is good for the environment! it helps protect animals and living organisms. x x you need to quarry limestone because it is good for the environment! it helps protect animals and living organisms. x x
It is necessary in order to access and remove the stone to meet the demand for it in the marketplace.
Quarrying limestone is needed to get raw materials and to produce cement, steel, glass and concrete
for this question you simply need to say what mining is and what quarrying is. here is how you write the answer: Mining is the extraction of metals from their ore and quarrying is the digging up for limestone, the resemble of limestone quarrying and mining metals both include digging up minerals from earth. this question normally worth 2 or 3 marks. hope i helped :)
AdvantagesLimestone is a valuable natural resource, used to make things such as glass and concrete that is used in everyday life.Limestone quarrying provides employment opportunities that support the local economy in towns around the quarry.Quarries can be used as lakes and other recreational areas afterward.The advantages of limestone quarrying are endless. It is readily avaible and very easy to cut into blocks. It is also very good in humid places as it is able to resist humidity very well. Furthermore, it is also very easy to cut and to sculpt so it is used a lot to make elaborate and difficult sculptures. So as you can see from these answers, there are many advantages of limestone quarrying and the limestone industry is very strong at present indeed.The advantages of limestone are that it is cheap and efficiant:)
limestone is a valuable natural resource that is used to make things such as glass and concrete. Limestone quarrying provides employment opportunities that support the local economy in towns near the quarry.
how does quarrying distructive to the envirinment
Limestone is good for making building materials:Glass - limestone + sand + sodium carbonate heated to about 1500degrees CCement - limestone + sand heated in a rotary kilnConcrete - cement (from limestone) + sand + water + gravelMortar - calcium hydroxide (slaked lime = Limestone that has thermally decomposed to calcium oxide (quicklime) and then had water added to it) + sand + waterAll of these make useful building materials. Powdered limestone or slaked lime (see above) are also both alkaline substances, so are often used in fertiliser to neutralise acidic soil.However, we have to consider where we will obtain limestone from. The quarrying of limestone can have damaging social and environmental factors, although it would have positive economic factors.Social - increased noise pollution, increased traffic, less clean airEnvironmental - pollution caused by increased trafficEconomic - more jobs in the areaThen we have to consider the impact of making glass, cement, concrete and mortar out of limestone. For example, glass production requires a lot of energy to create enough heat.
quarrying
Scientists can manage the debris and dust by creating quarrying fields that are sheltered in order to overcome the problems associated with limestone quarrying. They can also find a way to reduce the dependence on limestone to lessen the problems.
for this question you simply need to say what mining is and what quarrying is. here is how you write the answer: Mining is the extraction of metals from their ore and quarrying is the digging up for limestone, the resemble of limestone quarrying and mining metals both include digging up minerals from earth. this question normally worth 2 or 3 marks. hope i helped :)
Provides jobs for the people in the community
It is unavoidable if you want roads.
makes the world end
Stone quarrying benefits others because it can create roads.
Types of pollutants caused by a limestone quarry are:- Air pollution, the dust etc caused from drilling. The process of quarrying limestone causes the air to become polluted. Sound pollution, the sound caused by quarrying from limestone can often heavily impact those living within hearing distance.
one advantage is it gives locals jobs.
Quarrying is a very lucrative business. The stones obtained from quarrying are used for a number of applications, notably that of road construction and making concrete.
Matt Critchlow's a dick:)
AdvantagesLimestone is a valuable natural resource, used to make things such as glass and concrete that is used in everyday life.Limestone quarrying provides employment opportunities that support the local economy in towns around the quarry.Quarries can be used as lakes and other recreational areas afterward.The advantages of limestone quarrying are endless. It is readily avaible and very easy to cut into blocks. It is also very good in humid places as it is able to resist humidity very well. Furthermore, it is also very easy to cut and to sculpt so it is used a lot to make elaborate and difficult sculptures. So as you can see from these answers, there are many advantages of limestone quarrying and the limestone industry is very strong at present indeed.The advantages of limestone are that it is cheap and efficiant:)