An Alberta firm proposing silica sand mining in Manitoba has teamed up with the province’s largest university to pilot a groundwater monitoring […] ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Frederick-based commercial silica producer U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. announced Thursday it has acquired Mississippi Sand LLC, a frac mining and logistics company based in St. Louis, for $95.4 million ...

“While the regional silica sand is an excellent proppant in the hydraulic fracturing process, the oil and gas production activities in which Minnesota silica sand is ultimately used are out-of-state, ...

MANKATO — North Mankato resident Paul Linfors came to a public open house aimed at gathering opinions on silica sand mining, not with any specific ideas on mining, but plenty of bigger-picture ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO/AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Winona County's ban on the mining and processing of silica sand, which is used in the oil and gas industry for hydraulic ...

Glass manufactured by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (BSGCo) is compositionally diverse. Most analyzed samples have alkali-lead (Na-K-Pb) compositions, but some have low Na contents (i.e., are ...

ST. PAUL — For nearly two years, the state has worked to craft new rules on mining silica sand used in fracking rocks to release oil and gas in other states or countries. The issue remains divisive.