And it was actually was built on a top of gypsum which dissolves in water.
This is the world's largest cement company, second-largest concrete firm and third-largest gypsum wallboard maker.
In Bir Ghanam few of the 40 front-line fighters at the gypsum factory pray regularly.
's Montour plant near Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, generate 500, 000 tons of gypsum annually, plant manager Michael Munroe said.
So do buildings materials firms like Chicago-based USG, maker of the popular Sheetrock brand of gypsum wallboard.
Huge quantities of gypsum and chemical fertilisers have been added to the waters of the Marcal and Raba rivers.
The reaction creates gypsum that can be sold to companies like wallboard makers.
Gypsum was being dropped into the Marcal river from helicopters to neutralise it.
Eagle Materials Inc. is a Dallas-based company that manufactures and distributes cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard and concrete and aggregates.
Our flagship brands include SHEETROCK Brand gypsum panels and DUROCK cement board, which are recognized around the world.
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Gypsum wallboard revenue grew almost 52% in the quarter with volumes increasing 24% and the average selling price rising 30%.
The process that smokestack "scrubbers" use to reduce nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions creates high-quality synthetic gypsum, said Robert E.
"We convey it across the street under the main highway there and to the national gypsum facility, " the plant manager said.
Realizing a lot of industrial waste contained ingredients that could be profitably recovered, he became an enthusiastic recycler of gypsum in Japan.
As housing starts surged at the end of 2012 so too did demand for Spangler's building and construction materials supplier National Gypsum's products.
The remainder will end up in salt ponds where various compounds -- sodium chloride, gypsum, calcium carbonate -- can be extracted and potentially commercialized.
When the rover zapped the powder with its laser, it turned out to be gypsum, a mineral that tends to form in bodies of water.
Further alterations were later made, including changes to the mill's second waterwheel to drive a surface water pump and haul trucks from a neighbouring gypsum mine.
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Based in Dallas, Texas, Eagle is a manufacturer and distributor of building material and construction products like cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates.
However, rather than coming from thermite, the metallurgist Professor Sisson thinks the sulphur came from masses of gypsum wallboard that was pulverised and burnt in the fires.
The structure is made from sea rocks and gypsum, and served as both residence to Dubai's rulers and the seat of government until 1971, when it became a museum.
This outcrop contains yet finer grains but it is cut through with veins that the rover's ChemCam laser spectrometer indicates hold precipitated minerals - most likely hydrated calcium sulphate, possibly bassinite or gypsum.
Most companies, such as Johns Manville and U.S. Gypsum, admit they owe more than they're worth and form an alliance with plaintiff lawyers to set up trusts--funded with stock and insurance dollars--that settle asbestos claims with minimal scrutiny.
Brooks points out the crystallized gypsum disguised as marble columns, the Styrofoam used to fill gaps in the palace's building blocks, and the most fundamental flaw: The foundations of the palace, set in an artificial lake, were designed to withstand a 200, 000 square-foot structure.
The priority, both for all Arab states whether they be well endowed with natural resources such as oil, gas, gypsum or even fertile soil is the ability to create opportunity for an already high number of young people ready to enter onto the job market.
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