It's Official:Quarry mg Adds to Biodiversity

摘要

During 2008, west Lancashire-based Edge Hill University was commissioned by HeidelbergCement to carry out a large-scale biodiversity study of Cefn Mawr Quarryand its environs, near Mold, in North Wales. Cefn Mawr, at that time operated by Castle Cement, was producing approximately 700,000 tonnes per annum of Carboniferous limestone forthe nearby Padeswood cement works. The university had already carried out a study of an effective slope restoration project pioneered by the then quarry manager, Noel Williams, and his quarry-based team of workers. The aim of the biodiversity study was to measure and inform the development and production of a set of indicators to guide the sustainable operations of the quarry, while at the same time protecting any ecological and landscape interests the site possessed.