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Plant Workers - What is the White Mountain on Hwy 30 @ Hwy 3115?
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:30 am
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:30 am
Pass it all the time - what is it?
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Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:31 am to bamaswallows
Bauxite hills?
Some sort of feedstock. By Williams and PCS, right?
No...bauxite is reddish
Some sort of feedstock. By Williams and PCS, right?
No...bauxite is reddish
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:31 am to bamaswallows
Something they used to dump in the river until the feds stepped in. 
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:32 am to bamaswallows
quote:
White Mountain
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:32 am to fr33manator
It's actually in between 74 and 30, fronting on 3115. I think it is some sort of plant tailings or lime or something, but it just keeps getting bigger. Don't know?
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:33 am to Bluefin
You can call me scarface, snortin' mountains of cocaine
close enough
close enough
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:33 am to bamaswallows
Gypsum stacks
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:33 am to bamaswallows
It's slightly radioactive gypsum. It's an ingredient used to make fertilizer.
It was a running joke that they could be used for skiing events on the off chance that Kip Holdin talked the Olympic committee into allowing Baton Rouge to host the Winter Olympics (all bobsled events would be at Blue Bayou, of course, haha)
It was a running joke that they could be used for skiing events on the off chance that Kip Holdin talked the Olympic committee into allowing Baton Rouge to host the Winter Olympics (all bobsled events would be at Blue Bayou, of course, haha)
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:34 am to kingbob
quote:
gypsum.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:35 am to upgrayedd
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Gypsum stacks
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:35 am to bamaswallows
quote:
Pass it all the time - what is it?
fluorogypsum
part of it is a byproduct of making HF at Honeywell, some of it is from PCS I think from their ammonia plant
if you turn down 3115 and go to river road, on your left will huge mounds of fluorogypsum before reacted
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:36 am to kingbob
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all bobsled events would be at Blue Bayou
The Jamaicans would have the advantage right? Sounds like the opposite of cool runnings
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:36 am to udtiger
Wait- SLIGHTLY radioactive? Where does the stuff come from? Do they use THAT much of it? Mountain never seems to get smaller - only bigger?
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:37 am to bamaswallows
unfiltered Gypsum
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:38 am to bamaswallows
quote:
- SLIGHTLY radioactive
it also used to arsenic in it
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:41 am to bamaswallows
The radioactivity is why it never gets smaller. It would be tough to move in quantity but if you could find a use for it and work out the transportation, you'd be a millionaire overnight.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:42 am to CurDog
quote:do you speak proper English?
it also used to arsenic in it
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:42 am to bamaswallows
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Wait- SLIGHTLY radioactive? Where does the stuff come from? Do they use THAT much of it? Mountain never seems to get smaller - only bigger?
Gypsum is mined. It keeps well when stored in those large mountains. It depends on economics as to whether it's getting smaller or larger.
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:43 am to bamaswallows
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Wait- SLIGHTLY radioactive?
Your granite countertops are also slightly radioactive
Posted on 10/14/14 at 10:44 am to upgrayedd
Hell...damn near everything is slightly radioactive
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