azteca sunrise landscaping stone
- franpipeman
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I am starting to see a stone , or a coal byproduct called aztec sunrise in my Wernersville pa area. It certainly resembles gasified remnants of anthracite nut size coal. Yet i don't think what I'm stating is accurate. The vendor states its a coal byproduct . ITs like clinker without the metallized look, Does anyone have more information on this and how this landscaping material is produced?
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Looks like stone to me and I'll add that it is hideous.
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It was a popular landscaping rock here in the late 70's and is nothing more than screened Red Ash bank.
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Red Ash is what remains of a Culm bank that caught fire.
A culm bank is the waste material rejected from an Anthracite Coal preperation plant and consists of rock, shale, bony, and rejected coal.
I screened and shipped over 20,000 tons for a landscape stone broker in 1987 and never had a call for it again ..
Paulie
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Red Ash is what remains of a Culm bank that caught fire.
A culm bank is the waste material rejected from an Anthracite Coal preperation plant and consists of rock, shale, bony, and rejected coal.
I screened and shipped over 20,000 tons for a landscape stone broker in 1987 and never had a call for it again ..
Paulie
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you better start selling again as i see increase popularity I'm going to buy ...................... 2cu yards
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http://www.selectstoneohio.com/images/aztec_000.jpg
Like this? These are clinkers, right?
If clinkers were worth anything we'd all be rich.
Like this? These are clinkers, right?
If clinkers were worth anything we'd all be rich.
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Yes sir ....... That's the stuff
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Looks like what used to be referred to as RedDog around here, used a lot for driveways & some landscaping years back. From what I've seen it was old unusable coal scrap that they would pile , set on fire & then cover somewhat with dirt. After some amount of time it would bake & burn itself out then they would dig it out, allow it to cool (if still hot) & then either screen it for size or simply sell in bulk.
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thanks for all the info and history of the material I know the answers could be had here
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I've heard that such stones used to be used for landscaping, but they went out of fashion a long time ago. Landscape designers find this stone impractical and unattractive, so they very rarely use it in their projects.
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Still being sold by supply yards around here in PA and being used by some neighbors .