Pit & Quarry, May 2012
CRUSHING Gold CRUSH A Chicagoland producer sets up shop in North Dakota to capitalize on contract crushing in the Bakken oil boom area S imulating a modern day gold rush the booming oil production of the Bakken shale formation is estimated at reserves exceeding 300 billion barrels in a region that straddles the Montana North Dakota border and stretches into Canada The Williston Basin in the western part of North Dakota is said to hold the largest accumulation of oil identified in North America since 1968 As such The New Yorker magazine recently dubbed the discovery as Kuwait on the prairie Just as the forty niners once rushed to California to pan for gold todays drillers drivers construction workers and crushers are also heading to the West to cash in on a record production of more than 425000 barrels daily and the monthly addition of more than 100 new well sites each requiring a drill pad and road construction River Aggregates LLC set up its first contract crushing operation in the Williston Basin in July of 2011 The company is the newest operation under its parent company Plote Construction Inc a family owned business with more than 45 years of experience in heavy highway BY CAROL WASSON River Aggregates LLC is a contract crushing operation that supplies aggregates for the North Dakota oil boom Here the company stockpiles processed scoria 14 PIT QUARRY May 2012 www pitandquarry com
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