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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_005C_01CCA4D9.ACF66870 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I know a couple people who work in the Milford/Dutch Settlement mine. = The fines you see dumped over the bank facing the main road now and = behind for many years are not used. They cannot be shipped as it packs = in the train cars etc. They only ship the 4 inch size rock you see on = the train cars and can see in the Dartmouth terminal. If water or rain = hits the fines it turns hard like rock so shipping is hard for fines. If they did have a gypsum board plant here all those tons of fines could = be used, I presume anyway. They did ship some to PEI for farms, my understanding is it works = similar to lime in sweetening the land. ------=_NextPart_000_005C_01CCA4D9.ACF66870 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY=20 style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"=20 bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><EM><FONT size=3D5>I know a couple people who work in the = Milford/Dutch=20 Settlement mine. The fines you see dumped over the bank facing the main = road now=20 and behind for many years are not used. They cannot be shipped as it = packs in=20 the train cars etc. They only ship the 4 inch size rock you see on the = train=20 cars and can see in the Dartmouth terminal. If water or rain hits the = fines it=20 turns hard like rock so shipping is hard for fines.</FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT size=3D5></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT size=3D5>If they did have a gypsum board plant here all = those tons=20 of fines could be used, I presume anyway.</FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT size=3D5></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT size=3D5>They did ship some to PEI for farms, my = understanding=20 is it works similar to lime in sweetening the land.=20 </FONT></EM></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_005C_01CCA4D9.ACF66870--
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