Possibly nothing to do with this, but here goes! When the sand from certain foundries is delivered it is the same colour as normal sand, ie; Sandy! After it has been used for making moulds and had molten steel (or cast iron) tapped into it, the sand gets ‘burnt’ or turns black! I know for a fact that the black sand gets sold on, as it’s no use for a foundry anymore.
The last place I worked at, we had to go to great pains to keep the black sand apart from the new, sandy coloured sand!! 
Possibly nothing to do with this, but here goes! When the sand from certain foundries is delivered it is the same colour as normal sand, ie; Sandy! After it has been used for making moulds and had molten steel (or cast iron) tapped into it, the sand gets ‘burnt’ or turns black! I know for a fact that the black sand gets sold on, as it’s no use for a foundry anymore.
The last place I worked at, we had to go to great pains to keep the black sand apart from the new, sandy coloured sand!!
Possibly nothing to do with this, but here goes! When the sand from certain foundries is delivered it is the same colour as normal sand, ie; Sandy! After it has been used for making moulds and had molten steel (or cast iron) tapped into it, the sand gets ‘burnt’ or turns black! I know for a fact that the black sand gets sold on, as it’s no use for a foundry anymore.
The last place I worked at, we had to go to great pains to keep the black sand apart from the new, sandy coloured sand!!
The issue of water supply was mentioned, and I thought at the time, it would have taken a lot of work to use water from the river, rather than from a spring. This point was brough home on a later programme on BBC2. Boris Johnson was at the Pont du Gard ,Roman Aqueduct in France. It was said that the prime purpose of this massive piece of engineering, was to supply water to the baths and fountains.
As well of course, to show the power of the Emperor.
The issue of water supply was mentioned, and I thought at the time, it would have taken a lot of work to use water from the river, rather than from a spring. This point was brough home on a later programme on BBC2. Boris Johnson was at the Pont du Gard ,Roman Aqueduct in France. It was said that the prime purpose of this massive piece of engineering, was to supply water to the baths and fountains.
As well of course, to show the power of the Emperor.
The issue of water supply was mentioned, and I thought at the time, it would have taken a lot of work to use water from the river, rather than from a spring. This point was brough home on a later programme on BBC2. Boris Johnson was at the Pont du Gard ,Roman Aqueduct in France. It was said that the prime purpose of this massive piece of engineering, was to supply water to the baths and fountains.
As well of course, to show the power of the Emperor.
The issue of water supply was mentioned, and I thought at the time, it would have taken a lot of work to use water from the river, rather than from a spring. This point was brough home on a later programme on BBC2. Boris Johnson was at the Pont du Gard ,Roman Aqueduct in France. It was said that the prime purpose of this massive piece of engineering, was to supply water to the baths and fountains.
As well of course, to show the power of the Emperor.
The issue of water supply was mentioned, and I thought at the time, it would have taken a lot of work to use water from the river, rather than from a spring. This point was brough home on a later programme on BBC2. Boris Johnson was at the Pont du Gard ,Roman Aqueduct in France. It was said that the prime purpose of this massive piece of engineering, was to supply water to the baths and fountains.
As well of course, to show the power of the Emperor.
That is an interesting site, Jean. Listening to R5 at work yesterday morning, there was a 3hr programme all about the civil war in Former Yugoslavia. To ease the fragile ethnic tensions, which still exist, possible victims of genocide are called “the missing” (as I think victims of the Junta are in Argentina) The main priority, when a body(ies) is found, is to identify that person and let their family give them a proper burial._________________
That is an interesting site, Jean. Listening to R5 at work yesterday morning, there was a 3hr programme all about the civil war in Former Yugoslavia. To ease the fragile ethnic tensions, which still exist, possible victims of genocide are called “the missing” (as I think victims of the Junta are in Argentina) The main priority, when a body(ies) is found, is to identify that person and let their family give them a proper burial._________________