eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2015-08-15 12 2 1797 1803 2738 article Vladimir Viktorovich Ivanov 1 Sergey Aleksandrovich Sidorenko 1 Andrey Aleksandrovich Sidorenko 1 National Mineral Resources University, Russia, 199106, Saint-Petersburg, Vasilievsky Island, 21 line, 2 In work the major industries which using carbonate raw materials are considered. The factors affecting difference in demand for calcareous raw materials are defined. The dependences of prime cost of mineral and the specific revenue of its realization from productivity of quarry limestone allowing analyzing the difference in demand for productivity are presented. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol12no2/justification-of-the-method-for-determination-the-optimum-performance-of-limestone-quarry-for-steel-and-cement-production/ open-cast mining; limestone; productivity quarry; pit productivity; prime cost; mineral raw materials