What is the clay pit?

Creating products such as bricks, cement and ceramics requires that raw clay be mined from natural deposits on the ground. Access to this naturally occurring substance from places with known clay deposits often requires to be set up and operated down. The term "clay pit" usually applies to quarry or mine designed and created to provide access to raw clay. These range from fine clays used to produce ceramics to coarse clay used to make pots and even rougher clay used to trim landfills to prevent infection into groundwater. If there is known that there are specific clays, the area can contain many clay pit. Clay is needed worldwide for many practical purposes, so the operation of a clay pit near known bearings can be profitable. The considerable industry has evolved around mining and the sale of clay or clay from various places on the planet.

quarries and mines are often built in areas with a large amount of particular type of clay and the clay pit is likely to be located near a large deposit. As with many industrial activities, this type of surface mining can dramatically change the natural landscape. The deposits of clay are usually underground, but are usually mined in huge open pits, which means that a large amount of surface material must often be removed to another location. When the clay expires in the area, a clay pit may be abandoned, which can no longer produce raw clay.

There are many unused clay pits around the world that are no longer well maintained. The abandoned clay pit can be dangerous, as well as the old coal mine. The landscape near the clay pit may contain steep cluster surfaces or unstable surface materials. Low areas of the landscape could be filled with water. Vegetation could be returned to the area, although the extent of harm damage could mean that it would take years.

Despite the risks associated with these areas, it is possible to use an abandoned clay pit for something beneficial as soon as it stops producing clay. There are many examples of organizations and black neighborhoods using landscape mining as public space. In some places, old and unused clay pit was converted into recreation areas, parks and other public facilities.