$arkansas frac sand mine dredge$

$arkansas frac sand mine dredge$

Sand beds are present in the Nacatoch Formation in Clark, Hempstead, and Howard counties. The Tokio contains recoverable sand and gravel in Clark, Pike, Howard, and Sevier counties. Sand and gravel deposits are present in the Woodbine Formation in Howard and Sevier counties. Units of Late Cretaceous age that contain abundant sand and gravel are the Woodbine, Tokio, and Nacatoch formations.

$arkansas frac sand mine dredge$

Some units of Early Cretaceous age in Pike, Howard, and Sevier counties contain significant beds of sand and gravel, especially the Pike Gravel and Ultima Thule Gravel members of the Trinity Formation, which range in thickness from twenty to 100 feet and zero to forty feet, respectively. Certain areas of the state are particularly notable for the abundance of these resource materials. Most of these unconsolidated deposits may be mined from open pits (open cut methods). Major deposits are present as sedimentary units, on talus slopes, and as alluvial deposits in the flood plains, beds, and terraces of rivers and streams. Some background on the issue may be helpful:ĭeposits of sand and gravel are widely distributed across all of Arkansas and are currently mined in about three-quarters of Arkansas’s seventy-five counties. Accordingly we cannot make a blanket agreement to remove the sand and gravel portion of the general mineral exception. Cases seem to go both ways or at least are very fact specific. Neither the Arkansas Supreme Court nor the Legislature have clearly defined sand and gravel as surface or minerals. We are unable to do so at this time because of the uncertainty of the law as to whether sand and gravel are part of the surface estate or part of the mineral estate. We have been asked to revise our inclusion of sand and gravel into our standard general mineral exception.

$arkansas frac sand mine dredge$

Arkansas frac sand mine dredge