Mining has been an economic boost for 70 years

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Since the 1920s, residents and visitors to Kingsley Lake noticed that among the course white sand along the lake’s beaches, thin streaks of a black, silky substance could also be seen lacing through the pearly granules. The black substance was ilmenite. After processing, ilmenite becomes titanium dioxide, a pigment…