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| TABLE 5 | ||||||||||
| NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL SAND AND GRAVEL OPERATIONS AND PROCESSING PLANTS | ||||||||||
| IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2007, BY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION | ||||||||||
| Mining operations on land | ||||||||||
| Stationary | Total | |||||||||
| and | Dredging | active | ||||||||
| Geographic region | Stationary | Portable | portable | operations | operations | |||||
| Northeast: | ||||||||||
| New England | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | |||||
| Middle Atlantic | 5 | -- | -- | 4 | 9 | |||||
| Midwest: | ||||||||||
| East North Central | 24 | -- | -- | 3 | 27 | |||||
| West North Central | 7 | -- | -- | 2 | 9 | |||||
| South: | ||||||||||
| South Atlantic | 16 | -- | -- | 6 | 22 | |||||
| East South Central | 8 | -- | -- | 2 | 10 | |||||
| West South Central | 15 | -- | -- | 5 | 20 | |||||
| West: | ||||||||||
| Mountain | 6 | -- | 1 | -- | 7 | |||||
| Pacific | 11 | -- | -- | 1 | 12 | |||||
| Total | 93 | -- | 1 | 23 | 117 | |||||
| -- Zero. | ||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program