MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967286 
 
 Sand and Gravel.—Illinois ranked gravel production. Bureati, Cook,
Grundy, seventh in the Nation in quantity, and Kane, Lake, La Salle, McHenry,
Peoria, fourth in value, of sand and gravel pro- Tazewell, Will, and Winnebago
counties duced. Total production increased about 2 each had production exceeding
1 million percent in both quantity and value. Produc- tons and provided over
two-thirds of the tion was reported from 71 counties in State production.

which there were 225 commercial and Stone.—Illinois ranked third in
the Na100 Government-and-contractor operations. tion in stone production
and value. Commercial operations accounted for 96 Although nearly all production
was limepercent of the total production. About stone, a small amount of sandstone
(ganithree-fourths of the commercial sand and ster) was mined in Alexander
County. gravel output was shipped by truck, and Total production increased
5 percent in the remainder by rail or water. quantity and 10 percent in value.
Over 
 Of the total sand and gravel produced, three-fourths of the production was
used in 43 percent was used as paving material, 35 concrete aggregate and
roadstone; other percent as building material, and the re- major uses were
for agricultural purposes mainder as industrial sands, railroad bal- and
cement. The use of limestone for last, and fill. Most use categories showed
agricultural purposes declined 21 percent, minor fluctuations from 1966.
A 6-percent while use in concrete aggregate and roaddecrease in building
sand and gravel, and stone increased 10 percent, and use in cea 1-percent
increase in paving material, ment increased nearly 7 percent. About along
with an increase of fill material ex- 88 percent of the crushed and broken
stone ceeding 1 million tons, resulted in a net was shipped by truck, 9 percent
by rail, 600,000-ton increase in total sand and and 3 percent by water. 
 
Table 11.—Limestone sold or used by producers, by uses 
Use 
1966 
 
1967 
 
 
 
Value 
 
Value 
 
Quantity (thousands) 
 
Quantity 
(thou 
sands) 
Dimension: 
 
 
 
 
Rubble thousand short tons_ 
2 
$14 
2 
$19 
House stone veneer thousand cubic feet.. 
23 
106 
22 
51 
Cutstone do 
 
 
3 
26 
 Flagging do. 
 
 Total approximate thousand short tons ' . Crushed and broken: 
12 
9 
13 
14 
 
5 
129 
5 
110 
 
 
 
 
 
Riprap thousand short tons~Concrete aggregate and roadstone do.~Railroad
ballast do~_ 
645 
34,521 
552 
941 
45,381 
581 
636 
37,958 
561 
1,203 
52,264 
630 
Agriculture do_~.Cement do 
4,923 
2,550 
7,319 
2,093 
3,879 
2,724 
5,983 
2,334 
Asphalt do. 
Other 2 do~ 
 Total do. Grand total do_. 
W 
2,961 
W 
4,510 
30 
2,663 
 128 
4,103 
 
46,152 
60,824 
48,452 
66,644 
 
46,157 
60,953 
48,457 
66,754 
 W Withheld to avoid dioclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Other." 
 1 Average weight of 170 pounds per cutic foot used to convert cubic feet
to short tons. 
 2 Includes limestone for asphalt filler (1966), filter beds (1967), chemical
uses, dust for coal mines, fertilizer, lime, metallurgical uses, mineral
food, poultry grit, stone sand, whiting or whiting substitute, and other
uses. 
 3 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
 
 Production of crushed and broken lime- crushed and broken stone; Cook County
stone was reported from 60 counties, 11 of alone contributed nearly one-third
of the which had production exceeding I million total. Dimension stone was
produced in tons. Those 11 counties, Cook, Du Page, Kane, McHenry, and Union
Counties. Hardin, Kankakee, La Salle, Lee, Livings- Sulfur.—Shipments
of elemental sulfur ton, Randolph, Rock Island, St. Clair, and remained about
the same in quantity as in Will, produced two-thirds of the State total 1966,
but increased 22 percent in value.