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| TABLE 5 | ||||||||||||||
| NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL SAND AND GRAVEL OPERATIONS AND PROCESSING- | ||||||||||||||
| PLANTS IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2015, BY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION | ||||||||||||||
| Mining operations on land | Total | |||||||||||||
| Stationary | Dredging | active | ||||||||||||
| Geographic region1 | Stationary | and portable | operations | operations | ||||||||||
| Northeast: | ||||||||||||||
| New England | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | ||||||||||
| Middle Atlantic | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Midwest: | ||||||||||||||
| East North Central | 79 | 7 | 6 | 92 | ||||||||||
| West North Central | 20 | 8 | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
| South: | ||||||||||||||
| South Atlantic | 33 | 7 | 4 | 44 | ||||||||||
| East South Central | 14 | -- | 4 | 18 | ||||||||||
| West South Central | 63 | 3 | 11 | 77 | ||||||||||
| West: | ||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 5 | 1 | -- | 6 | ||||||||||
| Pacific | 19 | 2 | -- | 21 | ||||||||||
| Total | 239 | 29 | 36 | 304 | ||||||||||
| -- Zero. | ||||||||||||||
| 1Sales region equivalent to U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Division as follows:- | ||||||||||||||
| New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT); Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA);- | ||||||||||||||
| East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI); West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO,- | ||||||||||||||
| ND, NE, SD); South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV); East South- | ||||||||||||||
| Central (AL, KY, MS, TN); West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX);- | ||||||||||||||
| Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY); Pacific (AK, CA, HI,OR, WA). | ||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
