Test Certificate No: 016-20-22881 Date: 08.12.

2020
TEST REPORT

Customers Address: Customers Reference & Test Methods:

M/s. PNC Infratech Limited P N C/J F/T esti ng/ 002 , d ate d 26 . 11. 20 20
Chainage- 47.800 to 107.680, NH-330A S ample R e c ie ved By the lab o r at or y at Agr a.
Jagdishpur-Faizabad Section Te st M eth o d s & R ef e r enc e S tan d ar d s:
Faizabad, UP IS 23 8 6 Par t s 8 & AST M C2 95- 12

Project: Four Laning of Jagdishpur-Faizabad Section Sample: Coarse Aggregate-20 mm down

Sample Source: Kabrai (Location 66+300 LHS) Test Duration: 27.11.2020 TO 07.12.2020

TEST RESULTS

SL No. TEST DETAILS Unit Method Observation & Test Results

Type of Stone: Intrusive

1. Petrographic Examination --- IS 2386 P8 Igneous Rock contain
of Coarse Aggregate-20 dark colored minerals
mm down Source of (Schist)
Aggregate: Kabrai,
Location 66+300 RHS) Surface Texture: Coarse
Grained

The submitted coarse aggregate is durable, innocous, suitable to use as coarse aggregates for highway
constructions. The test details & 30 micron slide photographs is attached.

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Petrographic Examination of Coarse Aggregate or Stone Boulder

as per IS 2386 Part 08 or ASTM C295

Discription:
Petrographic examinations are performed on Coarse aggregate-20 mm down. A com-
prehensive petrographic examination will fully characterize the aggregate source and
quantify the various rock and mineral constituents present. A full examination will also
describe the quality, condition and chemical stability of the individual constituents. This
type of examination is often used to determine if a particular aggregate source is suit-
able for use in concrete. Petrographic examinations of concrete aggregates follow the
guidelines of IS 2386 Part 08 or ASTM C295.

Observation of Stone Boulder :

1. Appearance of Stone Boulder :
Blackish grey coarse aggregate of rough surface medium texture. schist is generally
coarse grained, with crystals in the size range of 1 mm or greater. Finer grained equiva-
lents of schist are called diabase (also known as dolerite), although the term
microgabbro is often used when extra descriptiveness is desired. schist may be extremely
coarse grained to pegmatitic, and some pyroxene-plagioclase cumulates are essentially
coarse grained schist, some may exhibit acicular crystal habits.

Schist is usually equigranular in texture, although it may be porphyritic at times, especially

when plagioclase oikocrysts have grown earlier than the groundmass minerals.

2. Presence of Defects, Minerals & Organic Coating on Stone Boulder :

Free from mineral coatings, soft particles, free from deleterious materials like, Clay Lumps
and Friable Particles, Non-Durable Particles, Coke and Iron, Chert

3. Physical & Mechanical Quality of Stone Boulder:

Suitable for use as Coarse Aggregate, Aggregate Impact Value: 13.20 (% by mass),
Water Absorption: 0.58 & Specific Gravity is 2.642.

4. Constituents, Macrography, Macrostructure, Geological Characterisation & Macro

Examination of Stone Boulder:
Schsit samples consist largely of plagioclase, olivine,clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene in
varying, proportions, with lesser amounts of biotite, hornblende, and opaque minerals.
Rock types based on, the proportions of these major phases can be class

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Texture Variation of Gabbro Specimen through photomicr ographs in plane-polarized light

Textural variations in gabbro photographs:

All photomicrographs in plane-polarized light to same scale. Hypidiomorphic-granular
texture in olivine schist, Cumulate texture formed of large euhedral olivines in olivine schist.
Plagioclase and minor olivine enclosed poikilitically in large, optically-continuous
clinopyroxene crystal in pyroxene schist
Clouded plagioclase, opaque minerals, and altered olivine poikilitically enclosed by horn-
blende in hornblende-pyroxene schist.

The amphibole is secondary, as evidenced by relict areas of clinopyroxene (arrows). Late

magmatic alteration of pyroxene schist in the form of biotite growth, replacement of
orthopyroxene (Im) in anorthositic schist

Rims of red-brown biotite around magnetite/ilmenite in contact with plagioclase in pyroxene

schist.Vermicular intergrowths of magnetite with orthopyroxene host in pyroxenegabbro
(reflected light). Symplectite ofaluminous orthopyroxene and plagioclase in

pyroxene schist in the form of biotite growth, replacement of orthopyroxene by magnetite,

and saussuritization of plagioclase.

Granular hornfelsic texture in xenolith consisting of clinopyroxene, olivine, plagioclase, and

magnetite (crossed nicols)

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Copy of Customer,s Letter

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