The La Crosse Center is playing host to the Frac Sand Insider conference which began Tuesday. Frac sand mining is the mining of sand that is used in the fracking process to get oil and natural gas out ...

A draft report of a strategic analysis of the mining of industrial silica sand, also called “frac sand,” was released in June 2016 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The study ...

The world consumes gargantuan quantities of sand for all kinds of things, which along with related materials like gravel and crushed rock, accounts for 85% of all mineral extraction on Earth. A new ...

KOSSE - In a deepening pit in this small town southeast of Waco, workers aim a high-pressure water cannon that reduces small hills of clay-like sand into a watery slurry that is filtered, processed, ...

The future of Long Island’s sand mining industry may soon face a new test from its regulators in Albany as East End lawmakers aim to phase out some sand mines. The New York State’s Department of ...

A Texas-based sand mining company is trying to sell off one of its four Wisconsin frac sand mines after facing bankruptcy last year. Hi-Crush Inc., based in Houston, is selling off the Whitehall sand ...

A Manitoba First Nation has agreed to an environmental assessment of a proposed silica sand mining project, which the First ...