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...“We want to scale up these materials, to make them economically viable,” says co-founder Laurens Bekemans....
...Graydon Carter is the founder and co-editor of Air Mail....
...It had to have been heartbreaking,” says Bryan Richards, emerging disease co-ordinator at the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center....
...“China only procures sand and gravel locally for construction projects,” said Nasir Sohrabi, president of Gwadar’s Rural Community Development Council....
...The estate was never built; the road — now gravel and mud — is the principal cycle route on the heath, and the viaduct dreamily traverses nothing more than a green duck pond....
...With 2km to go, we obeyed the computer’s instruction to turn off the road, and found ourselves on a winding gravel track that suddenly dropped into a desert-like canyon....
...So at Renishaw they are planted into half gravel, half sand with very little soil. Last year Kesteven never got round to watering those in the Yuccary....
...J Laverack (jlaverack.co.uk) makes titanium framesets from £2,270 and bikes from £3,550, and can supply bikepacking kit by Apidura (apidura.com) with its bicycles....
...In Bordeaux, the enduring differences between emphatic, masterful Ch Latour and perfumed, graceful Ch Margaux are in large part assignable to terroir (in particular, gravel type, subsoil and position of...
...Six years ago, on my last visit, the track to Bom Bom was mud and gravel; now there’s a road and minibus shuttles....
...Additionally, transportation of sand and gravel is a significant part of the supply process, both in terms of costs and environmental impact,” Ms Acton wrote....
...He points out a pile of fresh droppings, then a perfect paw-print, long claws pressed deep into the ochre sand....
...Where else can we stand barefoot, on a mixture of sand and fine gravel, as we address the deep-rooted dilemmas of human migration?...
...Ben Stones emphasises the natural dilapidation by laying the floor with black gravel . . . or is it nutty slack? Either way, hardly Mojave Desert sand, but it works....
...Ancient Indian diamonds were alluvial: they were not mined so much as sieved and extracted as natural crystals from the soft sands and gravels of ancient riverbeds....
...After breakfast, we boarded two inflatable Polaris boats and landed close to a narrow spit of sand on South Pender Island....
...Packed into a gravel area a few hundred yards across are 12 large trucks with high-pressure pumps, a row of water tanks, and trailers carrying sand, to frack a group of wells for Statoil, the Norwegian oil...
...Aggregates are crushed stone, gravel and sand that go into roads and are combined with cement to make concrete....
...Ufan is elegantly minimalist and what he will do in Versailles is hush-hush – but a hint might be gleaned from his current show in the Parisian gallery Kamel Mennour, where raked gravel, boulders and sand...
...To do so, designers often replace the gravel and sand used in conventional concrete with high-tech materials, such as fibreglass or steel-reinforcing micro fibres....
...I then took them on a trip to Florida that would involve work and play, meetings with lawyers, restaurateurs and race car drivers, as well as sand, gravel, grass and asphalt....
...Concrete is made from cement mixed with water, sand and aggregate, such as gravel....
...Her “Fairy Tales” series, not the kind you want your seven-year-old to see, are elaborately staged phantasmagoria, shot on beddings of gravel, dirt, moss and sand that she brought into the studio....
...Avis (www.avis.co.uk) has cars for rent in Deauville from £27 per day. For more information see www.deauville.org/en...
...www.tresco.co.uk...
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