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Great Lakes limestone shipments up in November 2017
Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 2.95 million tons in November, which is an 18.8 percent increased compared with November 2016. Keep Reading
Great Lakes limestone trade up more than 17 percent in September 2017
Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3.5 million tons in September, an increase of 17.5 percent compared to a year ago. Keep Reading
Great Lakes limestone trade up nearly 19 percent in August 2017
Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3,991,471 tons in August, an increase of 18.6 percent compared to a year ago. Keep Reading
Frac sand rail terminal in the works
Smart Sand Inc. plans to construct a $10 million railroad loading terminal in Wisconsin to ship frac sand to new markets. Keep Reading
Polaris Materials opens aggregates terminal in Long Beach
Polaris Materials Corp. opened an aggregates terminal in the Port of Long Beach in California. According to Polaris, the terminal took its first delivery July 19 from a self-discharging Panamax ship carrying 77,000 tons of agggregates from the company's Orca… Keep Reading
Last of its kind: Shipping by rail
Rail is the key to viable markets for one aggregate-producing company that calls the Colorado Front Range home. Few trucks make their way across the narrow bridge suspended over the Arkansas River that separates Front Range Aggregates from U.S. Route… Keep Reading
