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Some of these operating locations are located on the same sites as our mining properties described below under the heading “Mineral Reserves and Resources:
−Removed: Significant building materials operating locations for CRH’s subsidiaries, as of December 31, 2024, are the cement facilities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Australia and the Philippines.
+Added: Significant building materials operating locations for CRH’s subsidiaries, as of December 31, 2025, are the cementitious facilities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Australia, and the Philippines.
These facilities include plant and equipment such as kilns, crushers, calciners, coolers, and silos used to process limestone and other raw materials into cement as well as equipment used to extract and transport limestone from CRH quarries.
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Predominantly, CRH’s production stage properties provide raw materials for on-site modern cement and aggregates producing facilities.
−Removed: Almost exclusively, CRH utilizes surface mining and, with a very limited number of exceptions, CRH and its subsidiaries are the only operators of the properties.
−Removed: Reserves are defined in Subpart 1300 as “ an estimate of tonnage and grade or quality of indicated and measured mineral resources that, in the opinion of the qualified person, can be the basis of an economically viable project.
−Removed: More specifically, it is the economically mineable part of a measured or indicated mineral resource, which includes diluting materials and allowances for losses that may occur when the material is mined or extracted ”.
−Removed: Reserves are classified into two categories, probable and proven reserves, in order of increasing geological confidence.
+Added: Almost exclusively, CRH utilizes surface mining and, with a very limited number of exceptions, CRH and its operating companies are the only operators of the properties.
+Added: Reserves are classified into two categories, probable reserves and proven reserves, in order of increasing geological confidence.
The Company’s estimate of 27,519 million tons of reserves, as disclosed on page 22 analyzed by rock type (Hard rock, Sand & Gravel, and Other), are of recoverable stone, sand, and gravel of suitable quality for economic extraction, based on drilling and studies by the Company’s geologists and engineers.
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The periods of validity and the conditions of these permits may be different.
−Removed: A mineral resource is defined in Subpart 1300 as “ a concentration or occurrence of material of economic interest in or on the Earth’s crust in such form, grade or quality, and quantity that there are reasonable prospects for economic extraction.
−Removed: A mineral resource is a reasonable estimate of mineralization, taking into account relevant factors such as cut-off grade, likely mining dimensions, location or continuity, that, with the assumed and justifiable technical and economic conditions, is likely to, in whole or in part, become economically extractable ”.
Resources are classified into three categories, inferred, indicated or measured resources, in order of increasing geological confidence.
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CRH has established and maintains a number of internal controls to address the risks inherent in the mineral reserves and resources reporting process.
−Removed: These internal controls have been embedded into the local control environments and operate across the business, including controls at an operating company, divisional and Group level.
+Added: These internal controls have been embedded into the local control environments and operate across the business, including controls at an operating company, Divisional and Enterprise-level.
As CRH’s reserves and resources are predominantly in production stage properties, features of the internal controls relating to quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) include:
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In addition, to provide further assurance over the Company’s mineral reserves and resources reporting process, the Company’s Internal Audit function completed a limited scope review across a sample of material reporting entities on the operation of these internal controls as of December 31, 2025.
−Removed: The table below presents, by segment and geographic location, the tons of proven and probable aggregates, cement and lime mineral reserves at December 31, 2024, and the related percentages by rock type.
+Added: The table below presents, by segment and geographic location, the tons of proven and probable aggregates, cement, and lime mineral reserves as of December 31, 2025, and the related percentages by rock type.
Proven Probable Total Reserves (i) (ii)
−Removed: Country Tons (iii) Grade:
+Added: Tons (iii) Grade:
% by rock type Tons (iii) Grade:
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% by rock type
−Removed: Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other
+Added: Country Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other
Americas Materials Solutions United States 8,406 76% 17% 7% 9,938 85% 9% 6% 18,344 81% 12% 7%
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International Solutions Western Europe (UK, IE, FR, ES, DK, FI) (iv) 1,885 82% 18% – 1,307 93% 7% – 3,192 87% 13% –
−Removed: Central & Eastern Europe (PL, RO, SK, CH, HU) (iv) 267 82% 18% – 232 51% 49% – 499 68% 32% –
+Added: Central & Eastern Europe (PL, RO, SK, CH, HU, HR) (iv) 328 86% 14% – 213 53% 47% – 541 73% 27% –
Australia 591 91% 9% – 442 91% 9% – 1,033 91% 9% –
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(iii) All reserves quantities are quoted in millions of short tons.
−Removed: (iv) The country and their respective codes are Denmark:
+Added: (iv) The countries and their respective codes are Croatia:
RS, Slovakia:
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CRH FORM 10-K
−Removed: The table below presents, by segment and geographic location, the tons of measured, indicated and inferred aggregates, cement and lime resources as of December 31, 2024, and the related percentage of these resources by rock type.
+Added: The table below presents, by segment and geographic location, the tons of measured, indicated, and inferred aggregates, cement, and lime resources as of December 31, 2025, and the related percentages of these resources by rock type.
CRH’s mineral resources in the table below are disclosed exclusive of mineral reserves.
Measured Indicated Total Measured & Indicated Inferred Total Resources
−Removed: Country Tons (iii) Grade:
+Added: Tons (iii) Grade:
% by rock type Tons (iii) Grade:
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% by rock type
−Removed: Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other
+Added: Country Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other Hard Rock Sand & Gravel Other
Americas Materials Solutions United States 1,184 93% 4% 3% 2,167 86% 13% 1% 3,351 88% 10% 2% 4,605 78% 20% 2% 7,956
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(iii) All resources quantities are quoted in millions of short tons.
−Removed: (iv) The country and their respective codes are Denmark:
+Added: (iv) The countries and their respective codes are Denmark:
RO, Slovakia:
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The table below outlines the number of facilities by segment and geographic location along with the annualized extraction (in millions of tons) for each of the three years ending December 31, 2025.
−Removed: of Quarries /pits Surface acreage (acres) (i) Annualized extraction
+Added: of Quarries/pits Surface acreage
+Added: Annualized extraction
(millions of tons) Years to Depletion
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International Solutions Western Europe (UK, IE, FR, ES, DK, FI) (iii) 385 41,099 23,768 79.6 76.3 78.2 41
−Removed: Central & Eastern Europe (PL, RO, SK, CH, HU) (iii) 38 2,807 1,213 11.3 10.9 12.3 43
+Added: Central & Eastern Europe (PL, RO, SK, CH, HU, HR) (iii) 44 2,991 1,486 10.9 12.3 14.9 43
Australia 48 16,217 3,063 – 10.4 9.4 104
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(ii) Years to depletion is based on the average of the three years’ 2023 to 2025 annualized extraction.
−Removed: (iii) The country and their respective codes are Denmark:
+Added: (iii) The countries and their respective codes are Croatia:
RS, Slovakia:
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