Stone Chips & Boulders (Pakur Black)
Stone chips are small pieces of wood or stone which are used, for example, to cover surfaces such as paths or roads. The most significant varieties of stone chips and powder are made of limestone powder and limestone chips, dolomite powder and dolomite chips, marble powder and marble chips, calcium carbonate powder and calcium carbonate chips, granite powder and granite chips, and quartz powder and quartz. The stone chips of size 25 mm to 50 mm are used in concrete work and they are categorized as fine stone chips. Generally soft foundations are cast using chips of this size. The stone chips of size 40 to 60 mm are generally used in road construction in
the base and sub-base. It should neither be too soft nor too hard. It should be slightly porous also, so that a compact base can be prepared with the addition of Murrum and so on. It is observed that the quality of using black stone chips gives better result than that of the brick chips.
Any rock larger than 16 inches in diameter. They are available in two basic shapes: round and angular. Round boulders have smooth edges and curves. They are water-washed or river-run surface stones of granite and sandstone, worn over the eons by wind, sand, and rain.