Stock insights

The limestone figure on our home page is a US producer price index. Here is what it measures, how to read it, and what it can and cannot tell you.

Our granite figure uses the same kind of index, but its series stopped in June 2025. Here is what the last reading shows and how we treat it.

Two independent US sources put the rise in crushed stone prices since 2021 at roughly 40 to 45%. Here is how they compare and what neither can tell you.

Over ten years stone prices rose faster than cement and ready-mix concrete, and cement has been flat since 2024. Here are four US indexes side by side.

Dangote Cement reports 8.3% growth in Nigerian sales volume for the first half of 2026. Here is what the figures show and what they leave out.

In the US, most crushed stone becomes road aggregate, about a sixth goes to cement and the rest to lime and chemicals. Each use asks something different of the stone.

The price quoted for stone is often the price at the quarry gate. Delivery is extra, and trucking is how most stone travels.