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But a new mine proposed by Mississippi Sand is different, conservationists and local opponents say, and it has become a flash point in the battle to put the brakes on frac sand mining in Illinois. The 315-acre mine site sits directly across a road from Starved Rock State Park, a 2,630-acre refuge of forested bluffs interwoven with 18 canyons ...
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