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 ...

Outside this city of 1,300, Preferred Sands turns Wisconsin’s sandy soil into a hot commodity. A wall of green trees opens to a vast expanse of sand buzzing with activity. Excavators mine and ...

Frac sand miner Jordan Sands in North Mankato was pushed into receivership recently after its banker declared a loan default. A few months earlier, Minnesota's largest frac sand producer by far, the ...

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 ...

State agencies are reaching out to southeast Minnesota to explain how new state laws that regulate the frac sand industry will affect the region. One of the major changes is a new requirement that any ...

Delta Sands LLC announced plans for the construction of a new 3-million-ton-per-year wet sand processing facility ...

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 ...

The state has at least 115 permitted or operational frac sand mines and processing plants, according to a tally by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The state’s sand is in demand for ...

Minnesota Public Radio and other media are reporting that Wabasha group appeals OK of silica sand facility: A citizens’ group in Wabasha has appealed the city’s recent decision to allow a ...

WHITEHALL, Wis. – A Wisconsin prosecutor is investigating allegations that an elected official in the state's most active frac sand county used his office to advance his own sand mining interests ...

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 ...