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Every kind of fully or partly cemented or consolidated rock, igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary, has, in some locality, been used for building but certain properties render some varieties particularly suitable for the purpose. Essential properties, apart from considerations of divisional planes, jointing, bedding or cleavage, are those associated with strength and durability. The material must not only bear the stresses the engineer or architect wishes to subject it to but also it must continue to do so after it has been in place many years or even generations.
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Sinclair, J. (1969). Quarrying Hard Rocks. In: Quarrying Opencast and Alluvial Mining. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7611-8_6
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