As a tailpiece to the post What’s Straitgate Farm worth to AI?, an article Building growth on aggregates by Breedon’s CEO appeared coincidentally a couple of days later; Breedon is a competitor to Aggregate Industries and has been buying up mineral reserves and resources across the country:
These carefully planned tactical investments in our aggregates business ensured that by the end of last year, Breedon had around 750Mt of reserves and resources at its disposal, enough to last well over 40 years at current rates of extraction.
To put a picture on some of those reserves, this is one of Breedon’s quarries - at Breedon on the Hill. For those interested in our historic landscape, and what we've done to it:
On top of the hill is The Bulwarks Iron Age hill fort, within which is Breedon's historic Church of England parish church.
In the words of Historic England, The Bulwarks is an:
Iron Age univallate hillfort built C2nd BC refortified prior to Roman conquest although stockaded enclosure may have preceded first phase. Surviving as earthwork largely mutilated by quarrying.
