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 mining experts will be at the La Crosse Center Tuesday for the Frac Sand Insider Conference but those against the industry are already putting up a fight. Frac sand mining has been a ...

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 ...

RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A proposed silica sand mining project in southeastern Minnesota could change the nature of the industry in the state. Or not. Nobody is quite sure what to expect at the end of February, ...

Professor Kent Syverson’s column supporting frac sand mining, which appeared in this newspaper last Sunday, raises a number of important issues, the least of which is whether we agree with him or not.

Everyone here is engulfed in mining. It’s a huge workload for us.” Frac sand fever has hit much of west-central Wisconsin, catching residents and local governments by surprise. Permit applications ...

Frac sand destined for the oil and gas fields piles up at the EOG Resources Inc. processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Largely overlooked in the national debate over ...

RED WING — Under the forested bluffs of southeastern Minnesota lies an increasingly sought-after resource prized by the energy industry that's attracting interest to the state from an increasing ...

I support banning frac sand mining. For several years, the extraction of silica sand in our driftless region of the upper Midwest has been predicated by the sand industry as an opportunity to ...