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A 40-mile conveyor belt is moving sand from West Texas to New Mexico
It looks a bit like a West Texas desert mirage stretching out for miles as far as the eye can see – some 42 miles from the far West Texas town of Kermit, Northwest into New Mexico like a giant mammoth snake undulating over desolate roads and dunes in a …