Las Vegas --The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today sold contracts for the extraction of 9.6 million tons of sand and gravel from the Lone Mountain Community pit.
Mineral materials (sand and gravel) are used in everyday construction, agriculture, and decorative applications. Highways, bridges, power plants, dams, high-rise buildings, railroad beds and airport runways, along with their foundations and sidewalks, all use mineral materials of one type or another.
Successful bidders included:
Size
Tons of Material
Purchase Price
Successful Bidder
Parcel Number
53.2 acres
2,500,000 tons
$3,200,000
Mel Clark, Inc.
N-92885
17.8 acres
388,000 tons
$679,000
Rice Construction
N-92886
17.9 acres
600,000 tons
$708,000
Boulder Sand and Gravel
N-92887
139.4 acres
4,000,000 tons
$4,000,000
Las Vegas Paving, Inc.
N-92888
19.2 acres
100,000 tons
$115,000
Hollywood Gravel, LLC
N-93012
55.4 acres
2,000,000 tons
$2,000,000
Wells Cargo
N-93022
The Las Vegas Field Office manages the largest BLM mineral materials program in the nation featuring seven active community pits and dozens of individual use areas that produce several million tons of sand and gravel per year. Last fiscal year, the Las Vegas Field Office sold almost $2.4 million of sand and gravel.
Seventy-six percent of the money derived from BLM sales is deposited in the Reclamation (trust) Fund, 20 percent goes to the General (Federal) Treasury, and four percent goes to the state in which the sales were made.
For more information about mineral materials, please visit http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/prog/minerals/saleable_minerals.html
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
