It gonna be different everywhere you go.
Around here everyone calls it "Bluestone". It's actually a hard limestone that's dark blue or black. We pay about $18 per ton delivered to the stone yard by the full dump truck load. We sell it for $30 per ton. We stock it in Dust, Crusher Run, and 3/4". We have a crushed stone plant right across the street, but they won't let small trucks in there. We have a couple of other plants within a 10 mile radius.
We have another store about 30 miles away closer to DC. Down there they produce a "Bluestone" that's actually a serpentine. The Dust and Crusher Run tends to be real mushy when it's wet, so we sell the stuff from up here.
Down on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the ground yields sand and washed gravel that's rounded and it's quartz. This is where we get our washed gravel and sand from. If you used it on a road or driveway, it would be like driving on marbles. Typically when they build roads down there, they haul bluestone from up here on down there. Then the trucking companies back haul sand or gravel back up or vise versa. We sell Masonry Sand and Concrete Sand for $50 per ton. Cost on sand is about $35 delivered. Pea Gravel and 3/4" for $55 per ton. Cost on that is about $40. The 2" comes from further North and it's $75. 2" cost is about $50. It's all about trucking. The further away it originates, the more the cost.
We sell Mexican Beach Pebbles for $875.00 per ton in 40 lbs. bags. Believe it or not, right now I can't keep it in stock.
Last edited by StoneCutter; 06/25/20.
