But even more valuable was what lay beneath the plant – not gold, but deposits of high-quality silica sand ideal for making glass. Starting in 1926, Ford mined the fine white sand from tunnels ...

Do you want to find out how glass is made? BOY:Yeah. GIRL:Yeah. CURIOUS CAT:Well, glass starts off as sand. CURIOUS CAT:'A bit like the sand you might find on a beach. But to make clear glass ...

That strain is not from increasing demand for gold, diamonds, or copper, but for sand, the primary material for construction and hence for economic development. Concrete and glass are made mostly of ...

It was partly the work of the area's beer drinkers. The 3,500 bags of pale sand were made from lots and lots of recycled glass -- the equivalent of 300,000 beer bottles. Marsh grasses will be ...

Pete Moe, executive director of The Exchange/Orcas Recycling Services, digs into the mound of cullet for test samples. Successful results could send Big Blue’s crushed glass to Bellingham for sidewalk ...

In keeping with its intent to source low-carbon products domestically, the company has signed an agreement to source solar glass from Canadian Premium Sand (CPS). “Following a tour of our ...