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SGR sand made from rocks

Ongoing construction of SGR Phase Two (PHOTO Jenipher Wachie)

Are you hoping to sell sand to the Chinese contractor behind the second phase of the Standard Gauge Railway? We have bad news for you.

The contractor has figured out a way of making sand out of the volcanic rocks strewn all over the Rift Valley floor, thus ditching ordinary construction sand.

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