USES OF CRUSHED LIMESTONE
1) Road Base
2) Under slab fill
3) Aggregate for making concrete
4) Sand for making concrete
5) Aggregate for mixing hot mix asphalt
6) Sand for making hot mix asphalt
7) Chip seal aggregate
8) Railroad Ballast
9) Agricultural Limestone (Aglime) neutralizes soil acidity and a source of calcium and magnesium
10) Rip Rap for erosion control
11) Bedding for Rip Rap
12) Bedding for underground pipe
13) Back fill retaining walls
14) Scrubber stone (removes sulfur dioxide in power plant exhaust gas)
15) Used to neutralize acid waste
16) Flux stone (making steel)
17) Flux Stone (making glass)
18) Flux stone refining sugar beets
19) Feed stock making cement
20) Feed stock making lime
21) Neutralizes stomach acid (Tums)
22) Ingredient in calcium supplement pills
23) Ad mix in animal feeds
24) Filler in paint
25) Filler in roofing shingles
26) Abrasive and filler in tooth paste
27) Filler for making plastic pipe
28) Aggregate for making concrete pipe
29) Sports field drainage medium
30) Chicken grit
31) Aggregate in concrete blocks and bricks
32) Aggregate for concrete power poles
33) Dust to prevent coal mine explosions
34) Landscape stone
35) Boulders for car barriers
36) Sediment Fences (filter media)
37) Bio degradable flat ware (plates-made by molding limestone fines and corn starch)