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crushed rock - rock fragments and pebbles

rock, stone - material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

ballast - coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads

bank gravel, pit run, pit-run gravel - gravel as found in natural deposits

shingle - coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

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M2 PRESSWIRE-August 27, 2019-: Global Crushed Stone Mining Market Report 2019 Featuring Lafarge Holcim, 3M, Vulcan, CRH PLC, HeidelbergCement

Global Crushed Stone Mining Market Report 2019 Featuring Lafarge Holcim, 3M, Vulcan, CRH PLC, HeidelbergCement

Geological Survey (USGS) crushed stone commodity specialist.

Aggregates Production Rises 5% in 2018

Surveys from the federal agency closest to the construction materials supply chain indicate that portland and blended cement, sand & gravel and crushed stone producers closed 2018 with respective year-over-year shipment gains of 3 percent, 7 percent and 4 percent.

CEMENT, SAND & GRAVEL, STONE SHIPMENTS

Crushed stone-mastic asphalt concrete provides for maximum resistance to permanent deformation due to the friction inside crushed stone frame.

The effect of stabilizing additives of waste pulp and paper industry on the properties of crushed stone-mastic asphalt concrete

Industry minister Yukio Edano on Friday promised the mayor of a city where crushed stone believed to be contaminated due to the Fukushima nuclear crisis were used for some buildings that he will instruct Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TEPCO urged to compensate for tainted building material in Fukushima

Mumbai A Mumbai-based environmentalist has made a fervent plea to Union Minister of Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, to secure Maharashtra's beaches, creeks and hills from rampant mining for sand and crushed stone for the booming construction industry.

Environmentalist appeals to save land

The output is I on display beside many of Zambia's highways--waist-high piles of gravel, and bags packed with crushed stone or powder.

Nine-year-old alone Banda works six days a week: he's one of 49 million children in sub-Saharan Africa who are forced to work for a living. While child-labor rates are falling in most of the world, they're still on the rise in Africa

It is advisable not to use recycled concrete or cheaper stone or a lot of crusher fines (fine crushed stone) that will provide good initial planarity, but will eventually clog the base or rut it.

Down under: getting to the root of sub-base construction for football fields

Concrete is masked by the crushed stone of the paths, and smooth, rounded carefully graded stones round the bases of the rods.

Resting place: a simple and moving memorial to the unknown dead takes its place in Japanese tradition and topography

An estimated 256 million metric tons (Mt) of crushed stone was produced and shipped for consumption in the United States in the first quarter of 2018, a slight decrease compared with that of the same period of 2017.

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