“…The aim of this research was to produce clean basalt pieces by only removing the weathered crust of the basalt waste-rocks, which would be utilized in many different fields of usage, such as blasting sands, sands used in water treatment, paving stones, ballast stones, powder and granules for construction chemicals, colorful granules for roof coating materials, sub-base sands for astro pitch, wall stones, asphalt applications, ready mixed concrete, colorful sands for parks and playgrounds, epoxy sands, processed plant soils and mineral additives, landscaping, private garden decoration, fibers and heat storage materials [9][10][11][12]. Therefore, an autogenous tumbling process was applied in a laboratory type mill to optimize the tumbling media ratios of different particle sizes of basalt.…”