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The Sand Mafia
We use sand more than any other natural resource except for water. We use about 50 billion tons of it every year. That's enough to cover the entire state of California every single year. The price of sand has soared over the past few decades. And all that money has attracted the same kind of criminality that vast sums of money have always attracted.