The "Czatkowice" Limestone Mine, a Limited Liability Company, is a strip mining plant which operates on high grade deposits of Carboniferous limestone, situated in the District of Krzeszowice 28 km away from Cracow and 54 km from Katowice. The deposit area is located in the south-western part of the Boza Męka Hill. From the west and east, the deposit area is confined by distinct torrent valleys which cut into the land. From the east, the boundary line runs along the Racławki Valley and from the west the deposit is confined by the Czernka and Eliaszowka Valley.
        The natural eastern boundary line is also a zone with karst deposition. Instead, the southern boundary of the deposit is the tectonic rift valley of Krzeszowice, outstanding in the area morphology. It runs approximately in the parallel direction. From the north, the deposit is confined by the Racławka Valley. Most of the deposit is situated in an afforested area. The deposit lies in the neighborhood of the Jurassic Landscape Park and the Nature Reserve ‘Eliaszowka Valley’. The limestone from the Czatkowice deposit is characterized by very good chemical and stereomechanical parameters. Here are extracted lower Carboniferous, fine-crystalline pieces of limestone, with high contents of calcium carbonate and trace quantities of heavy metals. That is why this limestone has been widely used in power industry, construction industry, lime, cement and sugar industries, as well as for road building and fodder production.
            At the end of 1998, a plant producing road-building and construction aggregate was commissioned.
            A limestone milling plant was inaugurated, instead, in the 1st quarter of 1999. It is provided with cutting edge technology installations. In consequence, the Mine has become an important producer of high grade limestone powders and sands, used among others, as sorbents for the desulfurization of power plant flue gases [wet method] as well as in fluid-bed boilers.
           New sorbent warehousing and truck loading facilities were commissioned in June 2005. There are sited two storage bins of 1250 m³ each.
           Also in 2005, the Company took over the ‘Niepelice’ Limestone Mine with deposits of Jurassic limestone.