Question for the oilfield guys

[Duck Butter]

What is the stuff 'they' are using to make roads to oil well location sites? Its not gravel, it looks like a white soil. Guy that was grading it yesterday didn't know what it was called, but thought 'they' were getting it out of Texas

[Lake Chuck Duck]

Lime stone?

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Lake Chuck Duck

Lime stone?

It could very well be limestone, would that work for building a road?

Dude said there were fossils in there or something, this was at 3 yesterday and I am 73% sure he was 3 sheets to the wind and may not have remembered talking to me

[Top Dawg]

Koleechie. No sure about spelling

[Top Dawg]

Sounds like ko-leach- ee

[jlincecum]

lime stone would work well for a road if you put it in right and pack it good

[SULPHITE]

hhhmmm kolache road....

[Duck Butter]

Caliche? Thats a soil type in Texas, would they use it

[Duck Butter]

Thanks, caliche it is, says its gotta lotta limestone in it as well

[Red Devil]

More than likely caliche. When I worked in texas, that is what they used. That stuff is hell on tires.

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by SULPHITE

hhhmmm kolache road....

That sounds amazing...

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

More than likely caliche. When I worked in texas, that is what they used. That stuff is hell on tires.

Looks like it would be, seems like it wouldn't withstand too much rain either?

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

seems like it wouldn't withstand too much rain either?

They don't have that issue too much in West Texas!

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

They don't have that issue too much in West Texas!

Very true, makes complete 'since' to bring it over here where it rains a little more than west tejas Probably cheaper than gravel though

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Very true, makes complete 'since' to bring it over here where it rains a little more than west tejas Probably cheaper than gravel though

Well if you had any common cents you would know that cheaper is best!

[fishfighter]

Caliche is a sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate. This calcium carbonate cements together other materials, including gravel, sand, clay, and silt. It is found in aridisol and mollisol soil orders. Caliche occurs worldwide, generally in arid or semiarid regions, including in central and western Australia, in the Kalahari Desert, in the High Plains of the western USA, and in the Sonoran Desert. Caliche is also known as hardpan, calcrete, kankar (in India), or duricrust. The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.
Caliche is generally light-colored, but can range from white to light pink to reddish-brown, depending on the impurities present. It is generally found on or near the surface, but it can be found in deeper subsoil deposits, as well. The layers can vary from a few inches to feet thick, and multiple layers can exist in a single location.
In northern Chile and Peru, caliche also refers to mineral deposits that include nitrate salts.[1] Caliche can also refer to various claylike deposits in Mexico and Colombia. In addition, it has been used to describe some forms of quartzite, bauxite, kaolinite, laterite, chalcedony, opal, and soda niter.
A similar material, composed of calcium sulfate rather than calcium carbonate, is called gypcrust.

[mrex]

If you are old enough you might remember Baby Jessica. The reason it to so long to dig her out of the well was they had to dig thru solid Caliche. Lived at the time about 6 blocks from where all that took place. Stuff gets harder than cement when packed tight. Water does not affect it in the least. Hard to beleive they could truck it in from west Texas cheaper than they could buy limestone for. Caliche does make a better road but with diesel hitting close to $4.00 gallon would cost a fortune.

[Top Dawg]

They made some damn nice roads on our lease in sonora when they were drilling in there. You can run 70 down them Caliche roads. Not to mention the dig a giant hole to get it and that becomes a dove hole....when there's water in it.

[shaggy]

Could b crush cement, r wash out

[mrex]

Originally Posted by Top Dawg

They made some damn nice roads on our lease in sonora when they were drilling in there. You can run 70 down them Caliche roads. Not to mention the dig a giant hole to get it and that becomes a dove hole....when there's water in it.

I still have a place to hunt between Eldorado and Menard. You right about the doves just find water and wait cause they are a coming.