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 ...

Updates to facility's automated control system and other electrical equipment by Interstates enables plant to process enough sand through wet facility to keep dry plant running year-round The Midwest ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — LaSalle County officials cleared the way for expansion of a sand mine this week, voting to allow construction of a sand-processing and transportation facility. The County Board ...

Analysts are predicting that as the oil and gas industry recovers, and drillers return to the shale formations in Texas and other states, the demand for sand is set to explode. Sand is a key component ...

Five years into the exploration for natural gas in the Fayetteville Shale, most Arkansans know about the hydraulic fracturing process and its links to environmental havoc, including poisoned wells and ...

DECORAH — The porous bedrock of northeast Iowa, known as karst topography, does not pose a great obstacle to the mining of frac sand, State Geologist Bob Libra told the Winneshiek County supervisors ...

Our research has found companies mining metals can get more out of their ores, by processing the ore to produce sand as well. This would solve two problems at once: how to avoid mining waste and how ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique in which millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart rock. A Wood County judge has ordered Completion Industrial Minerals ...

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