HRC50
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Soft
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Medium
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Clay, Shale, Siltsone, Cypsum
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HRC48~50
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Soft
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Very high
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Ash stone, coal, Argillite, Vocanics, Sandy pebble
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HRC45~48
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Medium soft
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Very high
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Sandstone, sandy shale, Lithoid, Limestone
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HRC40~45
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Medium
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High
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Medium-hard limestone, medium-hard shale, medium hard ash stone
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HRC38~42
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Medium
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Medium
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Marble, hard schist, hard streak stone
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HRC38
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Medium hard
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Medium
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Diabase, andesite, gneiss
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HRC35~38
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Medium hard
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Medium
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Grandiorite, limonite
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HRC32~35
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Hard
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Medium to low
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Granite, basalt, hard streak stone
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HRC25~30
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Hard
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Medium to low
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Rhyolite, gneiss, quartz porphyry
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HRC20~25
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Extreme hard
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Medium to low
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Silicious stone, hard sandstone
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HRC10~20
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Ultra hard
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Low
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Rhyolite, dense quartzite, iron stone
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