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To: Snowshoe who wrote (107472)9/7/2014 3:55:37 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218074
 
Now this makes it very clear, why the stocks rose so much as the sand is unrecoverable and remains underground filling the cervices created.

" A hydraulic fracturing job on one well can require a few thousand tons of sand. This surge of specialized drilling has created a billion dollar frac sand industry in a very short time. Between 2009 and 2012 the amount of frac sand used by the oil and gas industry has tripled."

.... and also makes it clear as to the expertise and knowledge needed in "fracking" properly a defined rock type substrate.