Alico explores for commodity

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 11:27 p.m. March 4, 2011
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LA BELLE — Land owned by Alico Inc. in Hendry County may contain up to 94 million tons of fracturing, or “frac” sand, a type of silica sand used by energy companies to extract oil and gas from reservoirs.

 

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