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Quarries and Environment (What are quarries ? (Change the environment,…
Quarries and Environment
What are quarries ?
Change the environment, displace huge amount of soil and plants and force animals out of the area.
Fill with water wherein some of them can be used for swimming whereas in some, mining equipment is still left at the bottom that makes it unsafe for swimming
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Berkeley pit- largest toxic waste sites in the USA, its water is within 61 m(200 m)
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A place where rocks,sands,minerals extracted from the surface of the earth. 2 types- .
an open-pit mine
sub surface-mine
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Miami Mine
largest quarry in the US in Miami,Florida
owner-Rinker Materials Corporation
limestone quarry-includes a cement plant. It supplies building materials to engineers all over the world
History
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mined with-hammers,picks,chisels made of stones or metals like iron
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site in Pipestone National Monument in the US state of Minnesota-
didn't quarry stones to make calumets or ceremonial smoking pipes
*calumets-made of metamorphic rocks called catlinite or pipestone
-important for:creating lasting treaties or agreemets between groups of people
transporting was difficult task
moai-name of rocks on Easter island, weighted 68 tons and were hauled
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