road metal , also: metal ***

Today the quarries serve as a source of road metal.

The workings were used for road metal and kiln lime.

Dolerite is crushed to use as road metal, and aggregate.

A major quarry is located at black Head, mining basalt for road metal.

The line carried only about 12,000 tonnes of freight per annum, almost all road metal.

Numerous carved and chiseled stones were broken into fragments to provide road metal.

Here and there along the roadside were quarries, long disused, where road metal had been dug.

In construction, carpolite is a limestone aggregate used as a road metal or rubble fill.

"Road metal" later became the name of stone chippings mixed with tar to form the road surfacing material tarmac.

During the Triassic, Laterite, an iron-rich formation was deposited, and is now of economic value in road metals.

Trap rock has been quarried for road metal, and sandstone for building; whilst limestone and coal exist, but not under profitable conditions.

Writings by Charles Elcock from the 1880s describe workmen removing the stones for 'road metal' and perhaps building field walls.

Economic deposits in Llandovery rocks include slate pencils (Teesdale), building stone, flag-stone, road metal and lime.

The use of road metal dates back to Ancient history, but was more recently pioneered by John Loudon McAdam in the late 18th century.

"Yeah, well, get the back open and let's take a look," the gateman said, his voice moving along the side of the van as boots crunched on the road metal.

He also foresaw Flybanger as an exceptional live act but summed up the review by calling Headtrip to Nowhere "middle of the road metal".

In one way it did not concern them if a sealed casket, delivered to them for conveyance, contained marble, gold, or road metal, so long as the freight was paid.

Road metal from a quarry at Moutohora accounted for 16,400 tonnes of the 1919-1920 total, and continued to be a major component of all freight traffic in following years.

The un-sprung cart by contrast was a simple, sturdy, one-horse, two-wheeled vehicle used by roadmen, farmers and the like for road metal or dung.

Local stone was dug up for road metal and building material, a water supply channel was cut to Dandenong, and the State Electricity Commission obtained a power line easement.

The District School Number Five and Wood Road Metal Truss Bridge are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Quarries elsewhere in Water Gully were opened in the 1880s and intermittently supplied quartzite road metal for the District Council of Tea Tree Gully.

The last working train ran a month later, on 14 April, bringing out a final load of road metal for highway improvements that would use the railway alignment once the rails had been lifted.

The Durnuki Road Metal Factory, which produces road metal from raw basalt and is the major supplier to the Georgian Railway.

According to a rough estimate, around 10 lakh tonnes of metal was used for the project that involved erecting a large number of stone columns as well as laying road metal filters.