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Title The price of sand : silica mines, small towns and money / a film by Jim Tittle
Published Mill Valley, CA : Green Planet Films, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (59 min.)
Series Online access: Alexander Street Press Environmental Studies In Video Outside North America
Online access: Kanopy Kanopy PDA United Kingdom
Summary 'The Price of Sand' is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed January 28, 2015)
In English
Subject Biodiversity conservation.
Business ethics.
Conservation of natural resources.
Hydraulic fracturing.
Land use.
Mineral industries -- Social aspects
Natural resources.
Silica.
Water-supply.
natural resources.
silica (mineral)
Biodiversity conservation
Business ethics
Conservation of natural resources
Hydraulic fracturing
Land use
Mineral industries -- Social aspects
Natural resources
Silica
Water-supply
Genre/Form documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Tittle, Jim, 1957-
Other Titles Silica mines, small towns and money