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The amendment allows mining sand for uses like construction and dairy cow bedding, but bans mining sand for other industrial uses, such as hydraulic fracturing oil wells. The Lawsuits. The Minnesota Sands litigation is the second legal challenge to Winona County's frac sand ban.