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 ...

Updates to facility's automated control system and other electrical equipment by Interstates enables plant to process enough sand through wet facility to keep dry plant running year-round The Midwest ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) — LaSalle County officials cleared the way for expansion of a sand mine this week, voting to allow construction of a sand-processing and transportation facility. The County Board ...

Five years into the exploration for natural gas in the Fayetteville Shale, most Arkansans know about the hydraulic fracturing process and its links to environmental havoc, including poisoned wells and ...

Unimin Corp., a Connecticut mining company, plans carve out a sand processing plant in West Texas in a bid to supply drillers with local frack sand, it said Thursday. The sand plant, expected to come ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique in which millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart rock. A Wood County judge has ordered Completion Industrial Minerals ...

A state administrative law judge on Friday invalidated a permit by the Department of Natural Resources for a controversial sand processing plant in western Wisconsin, saying the agency lacked adequate ...