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 ...

ST. PAUL — Attorneys on both sides of the Minnesota Sands LLC vs. Winona County case over the county’s ban on frac sand mining argued their points Thursday morning in the Minnesota Court of Appeals in ...

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 ...

Objections to expansion of industrial-scale sand mining aren’t confined to the Mississippi River corridor. Lynn and Darla Austin tell the editors of the Mankato Free Press in Silica sand plant not ...

Environmental exemptions that would clear the way for a Georgia company to build a $70 million frac sand processing plant in western Wisconsin that environmentalists oppose hit a snag Wednesday in the ...

How would you feel if you walked into a doctor’s office and the doctor told you about the potential dangers of heart surgery but didn’t tell you the risks can be minimized with proper precautions or ...

WINONA, Minn. (CN) – A mining company claims a Minnesota county’s recently enacted ban on “frac sand” intentionally singles out companies that process and transport silica sand used in fracking.

Oil prices may remain weak, but business is booming for oil in Texas shale plays, especially in West Texas' Permian Basin. That means the demand for sand is skyrocketing to churn out oil and gas as ...

MADISON, Wis. — A Wood County frac sand processing facility has been ordered to pay $80,000 for allegedly violating state air pollution control laws. According to the state’s complaint, Completion ...

Fred Troendel, at podium, served as mediator at a community meeting in St. Charles, Minn. Wednesday evening at Faith Lutheran Church to inform St. Charles residents about a proposed sand washing and ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. (“Mammoth” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:TUSK) announced today that it was the successful bidder in a bankruptcy court ...