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 ...

Between the unprecedented call by state agencies for Winona County to draft a frac sand EAW and outrage over the hiring of Red Wing Mayor Dennis Egan to lobby for the Minnesota Industrial Sand Council ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wallstreet Sand starts dry ops at its Kermit Permian site with 7 loadout lanes, 100,000 tons storage and 200,000 tons ...

More than 50 people gathered in Minneapolis Monday to protest frac sand mining outside a conference on the silica sand resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin. “This is total destruction,” said Kathleen ...

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 ...