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 ...

At today’s pre-session press briefing, PIM’s Charley Shaw asked what issues the Governor and caucus leaders saw as important for rural Minnesota. The AP reports in Bipartisanship still elusive at Minn ...

WINONA, Minn. — Nearly three dozen protesters blocked traffic Monday afternoon to a sand mining facility in Winona. They’re showing their opposition to the frac sand mining process making its way into ...

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 ...

DODDRIDGE, Ark. (AP) — Mining 61.8 million tons of sand from the Red River near Doddridge for hydraulic fracturing in Texas and Louisiana will not require explosives, an official said. "Unlike ...

Steve Harmon’s house shakes when the mining company 100 yards away blasts into what was once farmland. His patio is constantly covered in a thin layer of fine white sand. He and his neighbors also had ...

There’s a race raging in West Texas – not just for more oil, but for sand. A sand mining industry has emerged in West Texas that was virtually nonexistent a decade ago thanks to the rise of hydraulic ...

A new report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found the oil and natural gas industries directly or indirectly supported over ...

The world’s largest and perhaps most destructive mining industry is rarely discussed. Approximately 85 percent of all material mined from the earth is a simple and widely available resource: sand.

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – For seven decades, hundreds of acres of gorgeous costal dune land right by Lake Michigan operated as a massive private sand mining operation that was closed to the public since the ...