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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 30—Except for the oil and natural gas themselves, one of the oilfield's hottest commodities these days is the sand used to ...

As the number of frac sand facilities in Wisconsin has rapidly expanded over the past five years, residents and local government officials in areas near sand mining operations have understandably ...

TheIzaak Walton Leagueinvited advocates on both sides of the frac-sand issue to the group's meeting in Rochester on Saturday. Surprisingly, both sides shared some common ground. Frac-sand moratorium ...

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 ...

While the industry plays catch-up, some frac sand businesses are busy while others are hurting. Paul van Eijl, a former long-time zoning administrator in Buffalo County who now works on purchasing ...

I’ve reported several times recently on the “sand mining frenzy” in Wisconsin and Minnesota that is creating both “sand prosperity” and “sand millionaires”, and at the same time creating a lot of ...

Smart Sand is a fully integrated frac and industrial sand supply and services company, offering complete mine to wellsite proppant and logistics solutions to our frac sand customers, and a broad ...

Frac-sand mining opponents are demanding a House committee meeting scheduled for tomorrow be canceled because it fails to set aside time for the public to testify. The House Mining & Outdoor ...