Preliminary investigation of cement materials in the Taif area, Saudi Arabia

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A preliminary investigation of possible sources of cement rock in the Taif area was made during the latter part of August 1968. Adequate deposits of limestone, clay, quartz conglomerate and sandstone, and pisolitic iron ore, yet no gypsum, were located to support a cement plant should it prove feasible to establish one in this area. These materials, made up mostly of Tertiary and later sediments, crop out in isolated, inconspicuous low hills in a northtrending belt, 10 to 15 kilometers wide, lying about 90 kilometers to the east of At Taif. The belt extends for more than 90 kilometers from the vicinity of Jabal 'An in the south to the crushed rock pits at Radwan and beyond in the north. The area is readily accessible either from the Taif-Riyadh highway or from the Taif-Bishah road presently under construction.

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