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MCRANN'S SAND MINE 2-2-2-2-2-2-2 relatively rare and there is a ready market for it. The sand lies beneath a layer of top soil and caliche. All McCann has to do is strip off the covering layers and start hauling it out, LONG, MACHINERY The sand, to the plant by truck, is picked up on a large conveyor belt and goes into revolving drums where a large butane IM blast fire removes all the moisture. The deposit is 95 percent pure sand; there is little waste material to be extracted. The Zachery company of San Antonio is processing the sand. GUY WALKS TO BUILDING The dried sand is dropped into a large shed > 4 piIe 'stays shrouded in a fog of sand particles. McCann says he is separating the sand into coarse and fine sizes although any of it would be in considered fine by conventional standards.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the former Fort Worth mayor finding pure silica on his ranch near Glen Rose, Texas.
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