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Bentonite Boom Transforms Belle Fourche Economy
In Belle Fourche South Dakota locals once cursed the soap holes along the old Chisholm trail now they mine a magic mud bentonite that fills the holes and fuels a boom. Bentonite brings perfumes polish paints plasters and cleaner uses and its oil drilling lubrication raises town income to six hundred thousand dollars annually.
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