Posted on 04/05/2024 6:11:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
This is also the source of the sugar white sands on our beaches, from millions of years of erosion of the Appalachians.......................
Ping!.................
Maybe that’s a good thing. AI is not our friend.
Quartz is the most common mineral on the planet. I am sure you can find an equivalent source elsewhere.
I believe this is also where Augusta National gets “sand” for the bunkers there. The ultra white color looks better on TV.
IMHO the AI thing is overhyped. I'm not saying it has no use or is going away. I'm saying the investing in it is overvalued and will soon come back to earth to AI's intrinsic value. Then the demand for quartz will go back to normal. At least, that's my humble opinion.
How long before some Chinese company buys it???
10% to the Big Guy type deal??
Home of the former Beams Chinese Restaurant.
Everybody doesn’t have the beautiful beaches you do bro......I can vouch for that. 😏
There are other prominent regions where high-purity quartz deposits have been discovered. Among them are Drag, Norway and certain parts of China.
10% to the Big Guy type deal??
Exactly. As long as Joe gets his cut, America is for sale!
I think the whole facility should be sold to the Chinese as long as 10% goes to the big guy.
If anything, investors don't understand what AI is and how profoundly it's going to change things.
“Quartz is the most common mineral on the planet. I am sure you can find an equivalent source elsewhere.”
Quartz is common, the high purity quartz required is not.
Quartz Hill California. Grew up nearby, quartz was all over the place. Now it’s been developed for the most part, would be interesting to see if what little hasn’t been covered by homes has recoverable quartz.
Unstated was the fact that there other local prospects if those being mined are panned out
“IMHO the AI thing is overhyped.”
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I’m not yet seeing the “killer app” to drive this technology. Maybe there is, but it all seems a bit overhyped with people talking their book. JMHO
I spent 4 years (March through October, 2004-07) hauling various colors of sand, by bulk dump trailer load, out of the sand filled Mississippi river floodplain near Muscatine, IA to golf courses as far as 200 miles away.
But those sand pits had no white sand. And only a few courses wanted it, because every little thing that wasn’t white stood out. If a golfer clubbed some nearby divot into a white sand bunker, the groundskeeper had a harder job making it look ‘pure’ again (golf is truly the vainest of sports, imo).
To please customer courses that wanted white sand, we would get that from silica mines along the Illinois river, about 30 miles west of Joliet.
“And only a few courses wanted it, because every little thing that wasn’t white stood out. If a golfer clubbed some nearby divot into a white sand bunker, the groundskeeper had a harder job making it look ‘pure’ again “
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No doubt. It is also my understanding that, for the Masters Tournament, they literally have hundreds of volunteers to do just that kind of thing.
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