The document discusses quarry operations and their environmental impacts. A quarry is an open pit mine used to extract materials like stone and minerals. Quarrying involves stripping away overburden, drilling, blasting rock, crushing the blasted rock, and screening the crushed stone into size fractions. It can cause noise pollution from blasting and transport, damage biodiversity by destroying habitats, and affect the landscape appearance by creating large pits. Other effects include potential failure of electric poles near blasting and pollution from burning tires.

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3.  Quarry is a type of open pit mine from which rock or
minerals are extracted.
 Quarries are generally used for extracting
construction materials, such as dimension stone,
rubble stone, fine and coarse aggregates etc.
 Quarries are usually shallower than other types of
open-pit mines.
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4. Crushed Stone
Production
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The following stages are applied in production:
 Stripping and clearing of overburden
 Drilling of boreholes in rock and charging with
explosives
 Blasting operations
 Drilling of boreholes in oversize stone, blasting
operations
 Loading of stone onto transport vehicles and
hauling to a crusher plant
 Screening of crushed stone in size fractions
 Storage of crushed stone size fractions (Loading
and hauling of crushed stone and artificial sand to
a construction site in size fraction)

5. Dimension Stone
Production
Processing stages applied
in production:
 Drilling of closely spaced
boreholes in rock for
subsequent separation of
large lumps of stone from
the massif.
 Breaking of these lumps
into standard products or
similar-size stones.
 Treatment of stone
surface ,dressing
,grinding and polishing.
 Loading and hauling of
stone.
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8. Noise Pollution
Blasting
Transporting
From quarry to
Crusher
crushing
Transporting
The product
Noise
pollution
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9. Damage to Biodiversity
 Biodiversity essentially refers to the range of living
species, including fish, insects, invertebrates, reptiles,
birds, mammals, plants, fungi and even micro-
organisms.
 Quarrying carries the potential of destroying habitats and
the species they support
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Effect on landscape

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Effect on landscape ctd

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13. Other effects(failure of electric poles)
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19. Quarry site for aggregates for concrete production
along the old road
i. manual production
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20. ii. Production using crushers
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22. Impact due to burning of tires
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23. pond in the quarry
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24. 3.3.2 Quarry Site for stone production along new road
Effect on biodiversity/landscape
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25. Pond at the quarry site
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