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 ...

The demand for frac sand in western Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota exploded several years ago, spurring a dash to open mines and processing facilities and ship the valuable sand across the country ...

CHICAGO (June 8) – A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute shows industrial sand mining has been “a significant driver of economic growth across the Upper Midwest.” If done in an ...

The city of Winona could have a one-year ban on some silica sand-related businesses by the end of the day. The city council plans to meet this afternoon during an emergency meeting to consider a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, demand for silica sand soared as new technology allowed drillers to reach previously untapped oil, much of which was found in the Bakken formation of North Dakota, with a process ...

MERRILLAN, Wis. — Ron Baerbock had never heard of frac sand when he moved to Jackson County in 2010. A Lutheran minister, Ron and his wife, Karen, had spent the previous two decades doing missionary ...

A proposed sand quarry on public land near Dinosaur National Monument has been sidetracked into a bureaucratic inquiry regarding how to classify sand used in oil and gas drilling operations. A company ...

Opponents recently succeeded in blocking a permit for a frac sand processing plant next door to the Cochrane-Fountain City School, a K-12 school in Buffalo County. And opposition to frac sand mining ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Frac Proppants II, LLC (NFP), an emerging frac sand producer, today announced the successful completion of a $77 million senior secured credit facility consisting 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 ...