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The production of M-Sand or fectively used in making con-

Manufactured Sand generally crete which provides adequate
involves Crushing, Screening strength and durability for
and possibly Washing. sepa- the concrete. Having cubical
ration into discrete f ractions, shape, it effectively provides
recombining and blending good bonding in concrete.
At the beginning M-sand pro- Crading of manufactured sand
duced (by Jaw crusher, cone can be controlled i.e. required
crusher, roll crusher, hammer zone of sand can be obtained.
mill etc.) contains flaky ard l'.'an-lactured sand can be
elongated particles. Fo n e. =- c.cC uced ,'vith zero f ines.
when manufactured sa no s
Rajesh Jha,
(Managing Director)
produced from V.S.l (vert c: -s ::r cesn'r contain silt and
shaft impactor) it becomes : ^'a^^rties of
Y Vvve ce-
Aggregate Innovations Pvt. Ltd. suitable and viable s-bsr ., -:

to river sand and cou d b: :'- t : =: .: .. - e'e larqe quantity

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 Expert's opinion
\

cf aggregate is required, plants the two words - Manufactured Market name for Manu-
are established near the site so sand and Crushed dust. The factured sand.
:hat the cost of transportation actual meaning is given below
which illustrates that the two It is being called in the market
:an be reduced. with different names like
-he sand should be of proper are entirely different.
gradation (i.e. should have par- Crushed dust is the waste
. Artificial sand (as it is artifi-
:icles from 15Op to 4.75 mm in product produced from the cially produced )
3roper proportion). When fine stone quarries. The main .
3articles are in Proper Propor- Robo sand (as it produced
-- cn, the sand will have less
aim of the stone quarry is to irst bythe company named
f
produce coarse aggregate Robosilicon Pvt. Ltd.)
.cids. The cement required (BOmm-4.75mm according to
,',ill be less when there will be lS 3831997). The waste from . Crushed sand (as it is Pro-
:ss void in sand. Such sand will these plants contain lot of duced from crushing),
:e more economical. There is f ines (passing through 75t-t)
=:andard specif ication for Fipe along with flat<y and elongat- . Rock sand (as the origin is
(Sand). lt is divided ed particles of size ranging rock).
=Jgregates
^ four gradations. CenerallY from 4.75mm to 75pr. lf prop-
- ^ cwn as Zone l, Zone ll, Zone
erly treated this can be used Types of M Sand
and Zone lV. There is sieve for producing Manufactured Concrete M Sand, M Sand for
::signation for each grade. sand. Brick & Block work and Plas-
,'adation is made as per the tering M Sand are the types
-.= of the sand. V.S.l can pro- Manufactured sand on the of M Sand available. Concrete
: -ce any zone of sand. other hand is purposefullY M Sand for all concreting Pur-
made from parent rock but it poses, Brickl Block M Sand is
Difference between doesn't contain fines (silt, clay) for laying bricks & block I t"ta'
manufactured sand and instead it contains uniformlY sonry Work and Plastering M
crushed dust: graded cubical particles of size sand for External and lnternal
--:'e ranging f rom 4.75mm-15opt. plastering.
is an ambiguity between

The production of M-Sand or Manufactured Sand erickl Block Work M

Eenerally involves Crushing, Screening and pos- Sand
slbly Washing, separation into discrete fractions,
recombining and blending Plastering M Sand
. M-SAND - Sand Cranule
Thickness -'l5omicron - 4.75
ffi mm; Usage - RCC, Block
works flooring/Til i ng; Qua n-
tity per metric ton 0O0O
kgs) - 21.5 cftlmetric ton

::.,,:::a a
. P-SAND - Sand Cranule
Thickness - l5Omicron - 2.36
a:,.a:-a,aa,a:: :..a ::

mm; Usage - lnternal and

External Plastering; Quanti-
ty per metric ton (1OOO kgs)
- 22 cftl metric ton

Sand is generally mixed with

cement and water to form
concrete. These sand particles
should be hard and inert with
respect to cement. Continuous
usage of river sand from river
beds is day by day deteriorat-
ing and threatening environ-
mental disaster. This situation
has forced various state gov-
ernments in lndia to ban sand

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ll - '*l:1"
salt, the sedimentarY rocks
parttcularlY medium grain size
Limestone and Sandstone are
perfectly suitable as safe sand
substitute. Sandstone con-
taining SYPSUm' however is
to be ignored. The metamor-
phic ro-ks like slates, quartzite
and marbles are satisfactory
for sand substitutes. Cneisses
rocks are generallYtouch dura-
ble rocks with low PorositY and
are therefore satisfactorY as
aggregate materials. Quartz-
it6-cornposed dominantly of
quartz grains are generally
dente and tough with so low
a porosltY that they make verY
satisfactorY sand substitutes'
This is a suPerior substitute of
river sand.
The metamorPhic rock could
be an ideal choice against
granite rock in substituting
Ihe river sand. lgneous rocks
contains lot of deleterious ma-
terials and moreover it is high-
mining in manY rivers and kers to adulterate river sand ly porous hence more water
also to enforce stringent re- with cheaP sea sand
and sell and greater sklll are needed to
strictions wherever it is still in at high Price. Thus the short oreoire concrete mlx or Plas-
supplies of sand couPled with ier'mix and this high addition
vogue. This action has resulted
in deficlencies in sand suPPlY poor qualitY and also the high of water will in turn affect the
nationwide. The booming con- price have forced the crusher strength of the concreting' lt is
struction industrY is in a con- industry to Produce a
suitable therefore ProPosed to set uP a
stant state offlutter these daYs su bstitute. Quartz stone crushing unit in-
and this scarcitY has forced Apart from Cranite and Ba- stead of igneous rocks'
the profit motivated sand bro-

Provisional registration, Project report preparation

Ac-
quisition of Quarry lease and Crusher land /shed and
loan application

Procurement of machinery & equipments' and installa- 4

tion

ma-
Recruitment of Man power and Procurement of raw
terials

produc-
Trial production, streamlining and Commercial
tion

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l-r"t m lAOa/o lOOo/o 100% laOo/o

90%-100% 9OYo-1OOo/n 9Oo/o-1OOo/o 95o/o-1OOo/o

;-:Er" rn 600/o-95o/o 75o/o-fOOo/o 85o/o-1OOo/o 9Sok-laOo/o

:-- 3Oo/o-7O%o 55%o-9Oo/o 75o/o-1OOo/o 90%-100%

ffiti.nicrons 15%-34% 35o/o-59o/o 60%o-79o/o BOo/o-1OOo/o

O5o/o-2Oo/o OBo/o-3Oo/o 12o/o-4Oo/o 15%-50%

5C :-rcrons A%o-lao/o ao/o-1O%o Oo/o-1Oo/o Oo/o-15o/o

irl: : - lradation of river/crushessand as required 5u, rg l,,J3RTH

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Table 2 suggests the grada-

tion configuration required for
fine aggregates. While most
of the sand sourced from the
river banks do qualifY for zone
j r.
:
'::.. ! -.1 j,.: i ., 1 & 2, natural qualification of
crushed sand under zone I &
2 is diff icult due to the reason
that in case of crushed sand,
the rock mass is Pulverized
into fines, first bY aPPlication
Market Potential ent u nsaturated market. of chemical energY in form of
Due to the increase of PoPu- It is possible to imPlement this explosives, and then mechani-
lation & living standards, the project within B months. The cal energy in form of crushing,
dernand for M-Sand is multi- following is the tentative time which both reduce the aver-
plying every year. The Present schedule required for imPle- age grain size of sand' ln order
supply of production is meet- mentation. to transform crushed sand of
ing only about 20% of the de- zone 3 I 4 qualification into ac-
mand. Even if all the available Technically, a naturallY occur- ceptable qualitY range of zone
crusher units start manufac- ring or manufactured stone 1 or 2, it becomes imPerative
turing M-Sand as an addition- product bearing size of less to take out the fines from it
al venture then also it could than 4.75mm (S.Omm in some by means of air classification.
meet only about 50- 60l of the cases), is called fine aggre- This air classification can be
requirement. Looking into the gates or sand or stone dust. done by both drY Process and
stringent state government Both lS and MoRTH define wet process. While, wet classi-
policy on sand excavalicn and detailed gradation criteria for fication is more effective than
the constant fluttering state f ine aggregates to be used in dry classif ication, it Poses chal-
of construction industries intermediate gradation bands lenges in terms of enormous
and short suPPlY of \'- Sard it between 4.75mm/5mm and water requirement and also,
would be highlY 3oc'lc' .:e ro Omm, which is as Per the table disposal of the Process residue
set up sand units - :^3 c'?s- 2. which is normallY in slurrY'

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