# Crushed stone and Explosives and propellants

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/crushed-stone-and-explosives-and-propellants/

[Crushed stone](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/crushed_stone/) (commodity) and [Explosives and propellants](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_propellants/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: blasting input

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Quarries break rock with explosives, so explosives are a direct operating cost. The indexes share monthly moves at 0.21, yearly moves at 0.39 and 0.56 in the last five years, as both rose with US construction and mining demand.

- **0.21** monthly change correlation
- **0.39** 12-month change correlation
- **1.57** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.