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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...