(Thousand short 
tons and thousand 
dollars) 
 
 Sand and gravel County 
 Quantity Value 
Stone 
Quantity 
Value 
Type of stone produced 
 
Adams               
W 
W 
 
 
 
Ashland              
Barron               
Bayfield              
Brown                
254 
700 
113 
585 
W 
$450 
93 
359 
W 
 
  
429 
W 
 
 
W 
Dimension granite. 
 
 
Crushed and dimension limestone. 
Buffalo               
60 
21 
254 
$274 
Crushed limestone. 
Burnett               
261 
142 
2 
1 
Marl. 
Calumet              
75 
59 
176 
197 
Crushed limestone. 
Chippewa             
 
 
Clark                
349 
662 
194 
531 
 
 
 
Columbia             
838 
W 
87 
101 
Do. 
Crawford             
Dane                
Dodge                
W 
2,002 
952 
W 
1,873 
632 
369 
1,097 
378 
W 
1,327 
W 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
See footnotes at end of table.864 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
petroleum refining, plastics, brickmaking, metallurgy, paint manufacturing,
and miscellaneous uses. About 28 percent of the total lime output was used
for construction purposes including mason's lime, soil stabilization, and
finishing lime. The remainder was used for agricultural purposes. About 41
percent of the lime shipments were to Wisconsin consumers. The remainder
was shipped to 12 other States and to Canada; out-of-State shipments were
principally to Minnesota and Illinois. 
 Lime was produced by four companies, operating six plants in Brown, Dodge,
Douglas, Fond du Lac, and Manitowoc Counties. In addition to lime produced
and consumed within the State, shipments were received from seven other States.
Total shipments of lime into and within Wisconsin were about 149,000 tons.

 
 Perlite.—Expanded perlite, which increased in both quantity and value,
was produced at Milwaukee and Appleton from crude material mined outside
the State. The material was used for lightweight aggregate in concrete and
building plaster, loose fill insulation, and soil conditioning. 
 
 Sand and Gravel.—Production of sand and gravel established a record
high in 1967 of 42.5 million tons, exceeding the previous record set in 1959
by approximately 540,000 tons and the 1966 output by about 1 million tons.
Sand and gravel constituted 41 percent of the State total mineral value.
The largest quantity increase, 1.2 million tons, was in production of sand
and gravel for building purposes, while output of sand and gravel for road

construction decreased about 2 percent from that of 1966. Sand and gravel
for road construction represented 65 percent of the total, building 21 percent,
fill 11 percent, molding 2 percent, and other industrial sand, railroad ballast,
and miscellaneous uses the remainder. Wisconsin producers supplied about
5 percent of the Nation's 1967 sand and gravel output, ranking fifth in quantity
and eighth in value. 
 Sand and gravel production was recorded from 70 of the 72 counties in the
State~ Counties producing more than 1 million tons, in decreasing order of
tonnage, were Waukesha, Washington, Rock, Dane, Eau Claire, Ozaukee, Winnebago,
Racine, and Walworth. Collectively, these nine counties represented nearly
47 percent of the State total sand and gravel output. Of these counties,
all except Eau Claire are in the heavily populated southeastern quarter of
the State. 
 Production of industrial sands for molding, glass manufacture, sand blasting,
engine, filtration, and oil (hydrafrac) purposes decreased 6 percent in quantity
but remained virtually unchanged in total value. Chief reason for the decrease
was lesser demand for molding sand. Industrial sand was produced in Columbia,
Dane, Eau Claire, Green Lake, Pierce, and Rock Counties. Manley Sand Division
(Martin Marietta Corp.) completed a major expansion project at its Portage,
Wis., operation. The Wisconsin Geological Survey studied the possibility
of using silica sand from various locations throughout the State for industrial
purposes. 
 
Table 6.—Production of sand and gravel and stone in 1967, by counties
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