Industrial Minerals


Sibelco closes doors on 60 yo UK silica sand quarry

03 October 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Moneystone was “predominant and significant” UK source for silica for glass

Keywords: Moneystone Quarry, Sibelco, WWMinerals, silica sand, Whiston

Sibelco UK has finally closed its Moneystone silica sand quarry in Whiston, Staffordshire, following the refusal by planning chiefs to allow the company to extend acreage in 2006.

Sibelco is one of the world’s largest industrial minerals suppliers and producers. It is headquartered in Belgium....