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z <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />RESOLUTION HONORING PIEDMONT MINERALS <br />WHEREAS, Piedmont Minerals had operated a mine in Hillsborough for over fifty years and a <br />processing/grinding plant since 1968, and <br />WHEREAS, three minerals are mined and processed at the site: pyropholite, andalucite, and <br />seracite, and <br />WHEREAS, the Hillsborough mine has the only deposit of andalucite in the United States, and <br />WHEREAS, all three minerals are used in the manufacture of ceramics and brick, helping <br />increase durability and heat resistance, and <br />WHEREAS, Piedmont Minerals currently employs 18 people, and <br />WHEREAS, as a result of changing its dust collection process in 2004 from a wet mist dust <br />suppression system to a dry bagging system, Piedmont Minerals water usage dropped from <br />approximately 100,000 gallons per day to under 15,000 gallons per day, <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />formally commends Piedmont Minerals and its Plant Manager, Bob Atz, for its dramatic <br />reduction in water usage. <br />This the 13th day of December 2005. <br />Barry Jacobs, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />