To get at deeper deposits engineers inject steam via pipes to heat the bitumen and separate it from the sand so it can be sucked out.
She said most homeowners do not begrudge laws protecting the plover, a compact, pale shorebird with coloring that makes it all but vanish against the open sand flats where it nests.
Two days earlier, it had scooped some sand from a drift, sieved it to a fineness of less than a hundred and fifty microns, and dropped a portion half the size of a baby aspirin into a funnel on its back.
"It's quite tough sand and not as soft as it could have been, " he added.
The light is powered by a simple weighted bag, be it sand, rock, or earth, or anything weighing approximately 20 pounds.
Cambara picks herself up, dusts her caftan, and has barely sufficient time to stare at the backs of their heads before the battlewagon vanishes in the swirl of sand it has helped to raise.
With 170 acres of sand, it is the largest urban beach in the country.
Women put their head in the sand when it comes to doing their financials.
Engineers say the beach once had more sand but it has been washed away over the past few decades.
It delivers sand under long-term, "take or pay" contracts that reduce the company's exposure to short-term fluctuations in the price of sand.
As the drum beat reaches its crescendo, Pilot Baba seals the chamber with tin sheets, and throws a handful of sand over it.
At the bottom sat a lump of granite, the wet sand around it strewn with cigarette butts and ticket stubs from the wax museum.
He earned loud cheers from delegates for attacking what he called Britain's "fast buck" culture - saying the country had to learn the lesson that "growth is built on sand if it comes from our predators and not our producers".
It had been built illegally on what used to be a canal, before a developer had filled it in with sand.
However, it wants to use it for tipping away "inert" clay and sand from building sites instead.
The beach used to have more sand, but it has been washed away over recent decades.
Bury your head in the sand and hope it does not happen to you, or back-up, buddy.
He said he made his attempt on sand because "it wouldn't hurt so much" when he fell off.
"It throws some sand into the gears, " said Robert Albertson, chief strategist at Sandler O'Neill in New York.
Jamie Hooper said previously when sand built up it was just moved down the beach, which meant it always returned.
She held a thin stick in her hand and was drawing with it in the sand, bringing a flower to life petal by grainy petal.
Her lover jumped on his motorcycle and gunned it across the sand.
But they're ultimately going to have to take a lot of sand, move it in close to shore, and then move it again.
Do not bury your head in the sand and hope it will go away-such inaction never works and may increase your risk for a lawsuit.
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Described as a "mega-scale free form printer" by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that's like marble.
He also said the government should consider mixing salt with grit or sand to make it go further, providing supplies to towns and villages so communities could "help themselves".
Before the huge marble and stone campus sprang up - with its vast courtyards and a nod to Arab aesthetic in the arched windows and geometric mosaics - it was largely sand dunes.
Many councils have warned that their stocks of grit are running low, with Scarborough Borough Council in North Yorkshire revealing it was using sand from the resort's beach to grit pavements in the town.
Morocco is trying to entice more western filmmakers to its fabulous landscapes of mountains, sea and sand, and it recently won the right to continue to subsidise its fledgling film industry in a trade deal with America.
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