MURIWAI SANDSTONE QUARRY
Hardfill | Driveways | Basements | Horse Arenas | Landscaping and more
Our West Auckland Quarry produces a range of products suitable as hard fill and base material ideal for use in the formation of roads, building sites, farm tracks, horse arenas, landscaping, earth building and many other applications requiring the use of compacted material.Part of a family owned farm for almost a century, this part of the business has operated for over 60 years with our sandstone based material being used extensively by the building and roading industry as compacted hard fill beneath everything from concrete slabs to main roads and driveways. In more recent times the material has been milled to provide a coarse sand ideal for use in Earth Building and a wide array of landscaping and functional applications such as pathways, tennis and volleyball courts, baseball diamonds, the Giraffe and Rhino enclosures at Auckland Zoo and beneath Alexandra Park and Waikaraka Park Speedway.A range of materials are provided from the basic Run of Pit (ROP) raw material to the fine sand depending on your requirements. ROP has proven to be a cost effective method of providing hard fill capable of supporting a wide range of construction processes as has a CBR value of 30%.