Demand for construction materials in the North and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka has risen significantly due to accelerated construction work in progress to restore the destroyed infrastructures during the civil war. ...

Garnet has huge demand in worldwide at present. In Sri Lanka, there are few garnet mineral deposits, as beach and river sand. But rocks having considerable amount of garnet as a minor mineral are common in metamorphic terrain ...

Soil nailing is a soil reinforcement technique which is used to stabilize slopes by insertion of slender elements, called nails. When steep slopes are to be stabilized by soil nailing, practical problems are encountered ...