Wisconsin state environmental officials say they have no plans to impose new restrictions on the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas. The state Department of Natural ...

Town of Farmington will consider sand mining permit at February 10 meeting as neighbors express concerns about dust, noise ...

Pattison Sand Co. has requested rezoning of 746 acres of land from agricultural to heavy industrial for eventual expansion of its underground mine from its current size of about 100 acres. The site, ...

ST. PAUL -- Sand mined in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin opens up cracks between rocks so oil and gas can be removed from the ground in places such as North Dakota. But mining the silica ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has two new air engineers who will specialize in sand mine environmental compliance. Tanner Connors is stationed in the DNR’s Eau Claire office. He will ...

Should communities be able to prevent development of sand mines? Can communities set rules if sand mine operations are inadequate to protect nearby residents? A new “communities cannot say no to sand ...

The number of permitted industrial sand mines and processors ballooned to nearly 130, but oil prices began falling in 2015, making North Dakota crude less competitive. As drills went idle, so did ...

ST. PAUL - Sand mined in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin opens up cracks between rocks so oil and gas can be removed from the ground in places such as in western North Dakota. But mining ...

Pattison Sand Co. of Clayton, Iowa, is building a mine on roughly 300 acres of farmland on a sliver of land between Wisconsin 60 and the Lower Wisconsin River to collect frac sand, used in the process ...