Main environmental impacts in a construction materials quarry

Abstract

The investigation was carried out in the quarry "The Cocoa" belonging to the
Company of Materials for the Construction, the one that extracts limestones for
the production of products like macadam, concrete, gravilla, granite, sand,
stone powder and carbonate of calcium (marmolita). The objective of the work
is to identify the main environmental affectations in the area for the exploitation
of the quarry. Reason why the womb of Conesa is used for the evaluation of
impacts. It was identified that the quarry carries out mining to sky opened up by
what causes negative impacts in the health, as breathing, cardiovascular
illnesses and cancer. It can also affect to the agriculture, the cattle raising and
the ecosystems. The silica, the carbonate of calcium, the oxides of sulfur, as
well as the oils, fatty, and solvents are the chemical pollutants that exist in the
quarry "The Cocoa" due to the marble extraction, what allowed to determine the
negative effects for the health of workers and residents that inhabit near this.
40 % of the impacts that are generated by the mining exploitation is qualified as
severe, what means that the affectation demands the recovery of the conditions
of the means through having measured proofreaders or protectors and the
necessary time of recovery is a lingering period. They intend measures to
mitigate the environmental contamination which are guided to the protection to
the floor, to the superficial and underground water, to the atmosphere, to the
flora, to the fauna, to the population and the landscape.