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This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas

KERMIT, Texas – It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. Atlas Energy ...
Yahoo

Nonstop dredging kept the Mississippi River open this year, but moving mountains of sand creates its own problems

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas | U.S. | gjsentinel.com

When moving sand by truck became a nuisance, an unprecedented and risky investment opportunity arose: constructing a $400 million machine to streamline the production of hydraulic fracturing. The ...
The Gazette

Dredging kept the Mississippi River open this year but moving mountains of sand creates other problems

A boater on the Mississippi River near Wabasha, Minnesota docks at a sand island used by the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday, July 24, 2023. The Corps routinely dredges sand to keep the river open ...