Brick clay mining was once a major industry in the county.

Brick clay is abundant everywhere and bricks are made all over the district.

In the end, 80 tons of red brick clay were molded into a tennis court that worked like a charm for the home team.

The area has a long history of mineral extraction, with coal, brick clay, gravel and granite amongst the products.

The Philadelphia brick clays, et al.

Firelight flickered on the wet cave walls, illuminating the buffalo head, the man's body, skin the color of brick clay.

He makes groups of work using a variety of materials, from fine glazed porcelain to coarse engineering brick clays.

A number of small whinstone, sand and sandstone quarries were also present in the area and brick clay was excavated near Kirkmuir.

Deforestation occurred quickly as the demands of the nearby City took wood for building and firewood, and the cleared land was quarried for brick clay.

Wide marshes, which rested on the impermeable layers of brick clay that lie on the Keupere, were not conducive to productive agriculture.

There was also an intensive investigation into the resources of baryte, chromite, diatomite, dolomite, peat, limestone, brick clay, sand and gravel, etc.

Brick clay is largely composed of hydrated silicates of aluminium, with oxide or carbonate of iron and other substances.

Outside Wales, other industries started to use narrow gauge railways to move freight, notably ironstone, limestone, china clay, brick clay and metals.

Especially bowels are rich in iron ore, brown coal, asbestos, fire-resistant and brick clay, flux and cement limestone, glass sand, a building stone and others.

The region's mineral resource base includes brick clay and clay aggregate, gravel and sand-gravel mix, peat, and sapropel.

The chapel on the site was built over the graves of the friendless using stone quarried from the red brick clay of Fair Haven Heights for $4,000.

The kiln, renovated in the 1990s lies on private land on the western side of the village and the former brick clay pits are now used as fishing lakes.

During the year BGS worked on diatomite from Thailand, Egyptian brick clays and bentonites from Costa Rica.

Sittingbourne and its consumed suburb of Milton today is a growing town, with much recent expansion by way of house-building in the former chalk and brick clay works digs.

This had been a brick field, north-east of St Leonard's, Shoreditch, the brick clay had been exhausted and the area begun to be filled in with waste (leystall).

Coal, brick clay, and millerite ore were once mined in the city, and the predominant surface rock, the St. Louis limestone, is used as dimension stone and rubble for construction.

It is built of brick fired from brick clay quarried on site during construction, and took two years to build, including the construction of embankments at both ends which required the movement of around one million tons of earth by human and horse power.

Sited as it was on top of what was later called the South Staffordshire coal field with its numerous coal seams interspersed with layers of iron ore, fire clay and brick clay, Netherton was probably always destined to become an area dominated by industry.

The historian Anna Coxe Toogood found that the Mount Vernon farm records listed Hercules and Richmond at the plantation during the winter of 1796-97, where they were assigned as laborers, along with other domestic servants, to pulverize stone, dig brick clay, and grub out honeysuckle.

It appeared simplest to Harding to make it of brick clay; as creating an outlet for it to the upper plateau was not to be thought of, a hole was pierced in the granite above the window of the kitchen, and the pipe met it like that of an iron stove.