W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Undistributed."1 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent
rounding.THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF MINNESOTA 
 
 
Table 15.—Limestone sold or used by producers, by uses 
441 
Use 
1966 
 
1967 
 
 
 
Value 
 
Value 
 
Quantity 
(thou- 
sands) 
Quantity 
(thou 
sands) 
Dimension: 
 
 
 
 
Rough construction thousand short tons... 
Rubble do 
(1) 
  
$3 
(1) 
(1) 
Rough architectural thousand cubic feet - 
9 
40 
67 
$315 
Sawed do.. 
32 
157 
8 
49 
House stone veneer do.. 
45 
114 
99 
296 
 Cut do~_ Flagging do.~. 
 
 Total 2 approximate thousand short tons '  Crushed and broken: 
97 
13 
1,425 
1 
90 
43 
1,315 
11 
 
16 
1,740 
25 
1,987 
 
 
 
 
 
Riprap thousand short tons~Concrete aggregate and roadstone_ do~..Agriculture
do~Railroad ballast do. 
151 
3,706 
324 
44 
198 
4,377 
518 
60 
104 
2,968 
461 
14 
136 
3,647 
772 
19 
Other do_~. 
 Total2 do. Grand total 2 do.. 
99 
433 
75 
114 
 
4,323 
5,585 
3,622 
4,688 
 
4,339 
7,32 
43,647 
6,675 - 
' Less than 3'~ unit. 
' Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
3 Average weight of 160 pounds per cubic foot used to convert cubic feet
to short tons. 
4 Includes limestone for filter beds (1966), asphalt, flux, poultry grit
(1966—67), and other uses (1967). 
 
 
Table 16.—Stone production in 1967, by counties 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
County Quantity 
 
Value 
Type of stone 
Big Stone                      
Blue Earth                      
2 
258 
W 
$1, 191 
Dimension granite. Crushed and dimension limestone. 
Cass                          
W 
W 
Marl. 
Dakota                        
W 
W 
Crushed limestone. 
Dodge                         
Fillmore                       
Goodhue                       
Houston                       
LacquiParle                    
LeSueur                       
Mule Lacs                      
Mower                         
Nicollet -Olmsted                       Redwood                      Renville
                      Rice - -Rock                         St. Louis    
                 Scott                         Stearns                  
    Steele                        Wabasha                      Wadena   
                   Washington                    Winona                 
     Yellow Medicine -Undistributed                    
W 
383 
285 
205 
3 
28 
W 
252 
W 
487 
W 
W 
W 
W 
65 
370 
228 
W 
126 
W 
W 
W 
W 
1,466 
W 
443 
326 
220 
W 
724 
W 
344 
W 
558 
W 
W 
W 
W 
95 
611 
W 
W 
W 
W 
W 
W 
W 
6,929 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Dimensiongranite. 
Crushedanddimensionlimestone. 
Dimension granite. 
Crushedanddimensionlimestone. 
Crushed quartzite. 
Crushed limestone. 
Dimension granite. Do. 
Crushed limestone. 
Crushed and dimension quartzite. 
Crushed basalt. 
Crushed limestone. 
Crushedanddimensiongranite. 
Crushed and dimension limestone. 
Crushedlimestone. 
Marl. 
Crushed limestone. 
Crushed and dimension limestone. 
Crushed granite. 
Total'                    
4,160 
11,442