Logan Layden / StateImpact Oklahoma

State Sen. Frank Simpson, R-Springer, in his office at his Capitol office.

An effort to impose a tax on the mining of limestone, sand, and other aggregates is dead for this legislative session.

Sen. Frank Simpson’s, R-Springer, bill failed in a senate committee last week, and Simpson confirmed to StateImpact on Monday that he will not try to bring it forward again in 2013.

The idea was to treat mining operations more like energy companies, which pay a 7 percent gross production tax on the oil and natural gas they remove from the ground.

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