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I purchased several pounds of real ground up Granite HO Sized ballast from a vender at a train show down here in Myrtle Beach SC. I finally got my layout to where it was time to apply the ballast. I noticed while using a tool that had been magnetized somehow it had little iron shavings stuck to the end, I thought they may have been from my track so I stuck it down in the bag and the same thing happened again. I called the gentleman that sold it to me and he explained the process they go thru before bagging the ballast up, lots of big magnets used to remove any iron. He said no one had ever mentioned it before. My question to the gentleman of this forum would you guys use it and assume the matt medium will cause any steel particles to stick to the ballast or would you just dump this batch and move on to another brand? Thanks Bill