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2020-03-05 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
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#1 and concrete

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-05 05:40|| 2020-03-05 05:40|| Front Page Top

#2 All of the above uses. Several decades ago Minnesota was selling sand to Saudi, water filtration systems.

There is also the use in silicon integrated circuit type electronics?

Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-05 06:02|| 2020-03-05 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Minnesota was selling sand to Saudi

Sounds like one helluva salesman.
Deserves a fat bonus and a trip for him and his family to Leaders' Circle

Posted by Lex 2020-03-05 07:12|| 2020-03-05 07:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Some sands contain exotic metals.

Posted by gorb 2020-03-05 07:30|| 2020-03-05 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Minnesota was selling sand to Saudi

What's next? Ice to the Eskimo?

Posted by AlanC 2020-03-05 08:23|| 2020-03-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 A lot of fracking sand came from Wisconsin, and maybe some in Minnesota. That'd be ironic.

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-05 09:18|| 2020-03-05 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Filter media sand for water treatment has specific specs for grading, angularity, degradation and other properties. I have purchased filter media often from a company in Wisconsin but never from North Korea.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-03-05 10:25|| 2020-03-05 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 We ate sand

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-05 10:25|| 2020-03-05 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 as I recall the sand to Saudi Arabia was for road construction

the sand in Saudi Arabia was too rounded (I suppose because it was blown around and bumped against other sand) and they needed sand with a dendritic character; the dendritic feature was needed to make cement binder component work

Posted by lord garth 2020-03-05 10:30|| 2020-03-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#10 "This requires an enormous amount of sand"

HOW AND WHY CHINA IS BUILDING ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-05 11:27|| 2020-03-05 11:27|| Front Page Top

#11 :-) Thank you all for continuing my education.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-05 21:07|| 2020-03-05 21:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Indeed desert sand is not used for construction.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-03-05 21:11|| 2020-03-05 21:11|| Front Page Top

#13 But this might change

Posted by European Conservative 2020-03-05 21:15|| 2020-03-05 21:15|| Front Page Top

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