Landscape Slate

Decorative landscape slate is one of our most popular products. These slate chips make durable long-lasting accents for gardens, paths, walkways, and more. The natural gray color creates an amazing contrast with other stone work, and with natural foliage.

Unlike many products on the market, our slate chips do not rot or decay, and they do not attract insects. There are no artificial colors, sprays, or dyes added to these products. The slate reserves that we mine are over 600 million years old, and these all-natural stones are safe for use around plants, in gardens, and in ponds.

Our slate is a truly amazing landscape product that’s beneficial for the soil, it last forever, and it’s incredibly beautiful.

RECOMMENDED APPLICATION

Shrubs and Flower Beds: 1 – 2″ Thick
Walks and Driveways: 2″ – 4 Thick

COVERAGE

One Ton: 150 sq. feet at 2″ thickness

Trail Mix

Our Trail Mix is a specialty blend used for trails, sidewalks, and driveways. Unlike gravel products, slate fractures on flat plains; as a result, it creates a great surface for walking, riding, and driving. In fact, our Trail Mix blend is ADA compliant because it’s so easy to roll a wheel chair across. A truly amazing product that’s “loose” stone, yet it creates a “semi-solid” surface strong enough to drive cars on.

Our Trail Mix has a strong presence in the City, County, and State parks in Georgia. Take a hike on a trail with our patented Trail Mix blend, or ride your mountain bike on one of our paths, and you’ll see why this amazing product is so desirable for residential and commercial applications.

Industrial Minerals

Slate powder and granules are purpose made Inert Mineral Fillers produced from high-quality slate, extracted from the Rockmart Slate Quarry; situated in Rockmart, Georgia.

Rockmart Slate is of excellent quality, highly resistant to atmospheric attack, and meets the exacting requirements of current industry standards; which are particularly concerned with durability. It has high resistance to acids and staining.

APPLICATIONS

• Paints and Coatings
• Rubber and Plastics
• Adhesives and Sealing compounds
• Surface Coatings/Dressings
• Automobile Underseal
• Roofing Granules and Back Surface coating
• Roofing Felts
• Pipe Protective Coatings
• Mastics and Resins
• Damp-Proof Courses
• Reconstituted Roofing Tiles
• Concrete Filler
• Marine Compounds

BENEFICIAL PROPERTIES

• Stability and Inertness
• High specific gravity and bulk density
• Low abrasion characteristics
• Low absorption charactersitics for both oil and water
• Consistency of particle size and the ability to produce a variety of closely-sized fractions over a wide overall range
• Sound-deadening and insulation qualities

PARTICLE SHAPES

Because of the flaky habit of the component minerals, the particles of slate powder and granules are also flaky – not sharp or angular. They have a thickness of one-quarter to one-tenth of their breadth. In many applications, this characteristic has been found to have reinforcing properties. The particle shape gives a high specific surface, and consequently, good covering capacity.

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

Table 1 shows the distribution of the chemical analysis compounds in the component slate minerals. It is these abundant, stable, low abrasive, low moisture absorption, smooth, platy minerals that make Rockmart Slate powder & granules an ideal mineral filler or carrier for many purposes.

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