What Are Cinders for Snow?

It is a lightweight alternative to salt for ice and snow control. Our product is a lightweight alternative to salt for ice and snow control. Ice control cinders are dark in color which makes it work great when the sun comes out heating the surface to help melt snow and ice.

What are cinders made out of?

A cinder is a pyroclastic material. Cinders are extrusive igneous rocks; they are fragments of solidified lava. Cinders are typically brown, black, or red depending on chemical composition and weathering.

Where do cinders come from?

Mexico obtains its cinders from the Thomas Hill Power Plant. That plant uses a cyclone type boiler and the material we call cinders is more properly called boiler slag. It is the molten bottom ash and is a different material than the fly ash that is very fine and is collected from the exhaust flue of the plant.