In Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, industrial sand, known as “frac sand,” mining has created thousands of high-paying jobs. Industrial sand mines employ engineers, electricians, welders, chemists, ...

A frac sand mine run by Superior Silica Sands in Wisconsin, the nation's largest frac sand producer. Neighboring Minnesota is the fourth-largest producer of silica sand. The town of Winona has the ...

Isaac Orr, research fellow at The Heartland Institute, and Mark Krumenacher, senior principal and senior vice president of GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., have written a series of four Policy Studies ...

A new report on frac-sand mining suggests that Americans living near desirable silica deposits should brace themselves for a long and lasting boom — not just in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where the bulk ...

The ‘mega-frac’ is turning the typically annoying sand of West Texas into the new gold, and the oil and gas land rush on the Permian Basin has now extended into the dry, gritty sand that only a year ...

Dozens of people voiced their concerns Wednesday morning about frac sand mining in Houston County. A final public hearing regarding a mineral extraction ordinance, which would impose tighter rules and ...

Higher drilling costs could threaten the recent surge in United States shale production. Halliburton said last week that its earnings could be negatively impacted because of bottlenecks related to the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the frac sand market and it is poised to grow by USD 4.27 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 10% during the forecast ...

When the Legislature today convenes its first hearings on the environmental impacts of silica sand mining, much of the focus will be on proposed projects in southeast Minnesota. But about 20 ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The frac sand market is expected to grow by USD 4.27 billion during 2020-2024, according to the latest market research report by Technavio. Request a free sample report With ...