What is Stone used for?
Stone can be used for the following purposes:
1) Construction of residential and public buildings.
2) Construction of walls, columns, dams, abutments, and bridges.
3) For architectural and ornamental requirements on the structure.
4) Used for road construction and railways.
5) Used as aggregate for concrete
6) Used in the form of facing for decoration.
7) Used for roofing purposes. Generally, slate is used because it is weather-resistive and durable.
8) Used in gabion walls and retaining walls to control landslides and floods respectively.
