Bricks are now being manufactured by this process from sand, blast furnace slag, granulated by being run while hot into water, clinker, town refuse, slate dust, and burnt shale.

Apr 17, 2016 Apr 17, 2016 Updated Apr 17, 2016 The “last of the Mohicans” is the nickname Eric Swartz has for a pile of misshapen, bloated bricks heaped at the Colonial Brick Corp. in Cayuga.

That brick, a kind of clinker, was wrapped in plastic film and was in a bag from Lidl. That bag had been tucked between the two protective cartons. The day after, she and her father went to the ...