An item in today’s Mankato Free Press underscores the value of workshops of frac sand mining issues and local control that the Land Stewardship Project is hosting tomorrow and a week from now. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oil prices may remain weak, but business is booming for oil in Texas shale plays, especially in West Texas' Permian Basin. That means the demand for sand is skyrocketing to churn out oil and gas as ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Environmental exemptions that would clear the way for a Georgia company to build a $70 million frac sand processing plant in western Wisconsin that environmentalists oppose hit a ...

WINONA, Minn. (CN) – A mining company claims a Minnesota county’s recently enacted ban on “frac sand” intentionally singles out companies that process and transport silica sand used in fracking.

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. (“Mammoth” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:TUSK) announced today that it was the successful bidder in a bankruptcy court ...

Thirty-five people were arrested for trespassing Monday in Winona after attempting to temporarily halt operations at two frac sand facilities. More than 100 people, many of them Catholic Workers from ...

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 ...