Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hope Quarry and
Cement Works
- Location
- Peak District
- Outskirts of castle ton
- Village of hope
- What is a Quarry?
- a place tipically, a large deep pit
from whihc stone or martericals
have or are extracted
- Hope quarry mainly extracts limestone
- What type of industry is it?
- Primary
- An industry involved in the
extraction and collection of
natural materials
- Why was the Location Chose?
- Because it is close to a railway
- Meaning easier transportation of the
limestone as a train can carry much more
that 1 lorry.
- Close to the Cemenet works
- meaning low transportation costs
again as it is close by to there main
buyer
- What resources does it produce?
- Limestone
- Cement
- Benefits
- New Jobs Created
- More income for
families
- money pumped inti
local economy
- Problems
- Eye sore compared to the
natural environment
surrounding it
- Destroyed natural surroundings
- More noise and air polluition
created from the transportation of
the limestone
- Dust and un-clean air created
from digging for the stone.
- Ways of minimising Problems
- Plant trees along the border of the cemennt
works to make it less of an eye sore and to
make it fit in more.
- Buliding blends in with colour of
quarry