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2. Sand mining - Wikipedia

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   Frac sand facility in Blair, Wisconsin Frac sand mine in the Town of Oakdale, Wisconsin with a large looped track with 3 rail lines. Silica sand mining business has more than doubled since 2009 because of the need for this particular type of sand, which is used in a process known as hydraulic fracturing. Wisconsin is one of the five states that ...

3. Silica sand - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 10 July 2023, at 10:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

4. Sand - Wikipedia

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   Glass: Sand rich in silica is the principal component in common glasses. Hydraulic fracturing: A drilling technique for natural gas, which uses rounded silica sand as a "proppant", a material to hold open cracks that are caused by the hydraulic fracturing process. Landscaping: Sand makes small hills and slopes (golf courses would be an example).

5. Silicon dioxide - Wikipedia

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   Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO 2, commonly found in nature as quartz. [5] [6] In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is one of the most complex and abundant families of materials, existing as a compound of several minerals and as a

6. Silicate mineral - Wikipedia

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   In mineralogy, silica (silicon dioxide, SiO 2) is usually considered a silicate mineral rather than an oxide mineral. Silica is found in nature as the mineral quartz , and its polymorphs . On Earth, a wide variety of silicate minerals occur in an even wider range of combinations as a result of the processes that have been forming and re-working ...

7. Siliceous soil - Wikipedia

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   Siliceous soils are formed from rocks that have silica (SiO 2) as a principal constituent.The parent material of siliceous soils may include quartz sands, chert, quartzite, quartz reefs, granite, rhyolite, ademellite, dellenite, quartz sandstone, quartz siltstone, siliceous tuff, among others. [1]