THE PRICE OF SAND: Silica Mines, Small Towns and Money from fracking sand price Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 35 min 11 sec ✓ Published: 17-Mar-2015
Description: “The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate.nnThe silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”), has other uses– glass manufacturing and toothpaste, for instance — and a few established mines have been in operation here for decades. But now, new companies have arrived, and land with accessible sil
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