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Once its unusual electrical properties were understood, crystalline quartz was sent directly from quarries and mines to factories ... down to the grains of beach sand, and as cryptocrystals ...

Production at Europe's only underground sand mine is set to be doubled following new investment. Sand from Lochaline Quartz Sand (LQS) is used in making windows, glass containers and ceramics.

By volume, mining waste is the single largest source of waste we make. There's nothing magical about sand. It's made up of particles of weathered rock. Gravel is larger particles. Our research has ...