Mining company Sio Silica has offered Brokenhead Ojibway Nation a five per cent share of profits from its proposed ...

Millville baseball icon Mike Trout took to social media last week to express his excitement about the progress being made at ...

Little attention and oversight has been given to the sand mines in LaSalle County that proliferated to support hydraulic fracturing operations.

An open house to discuss Sio Silica’s second proposal to build a sand mine in southern Manitoba took place behind closed ...

Sand mining destabilises riverbeds and affects local communities but new hi-tech surveillance can improve the monitoring of extraction and help protect these people.

Sand-mining company Sio Silica is offering up to $20 million a year to Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, provided the company can convince the Manitoba government to approve a new version of a previously ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited (TAMIN) has proposed a new silica sand mine within the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of the Kazhuveli Wetland Bird Sanctuary in Villupuram, one of the biodiversity ...

SHAKOPEE, Minn. — The sandwich bags of silica sand on Bill Bryan’s desk represent a new direction for the company his father and grandfather started in 1941.

Homerun Resources, Inc., mines silica quartz sand in Bahia, Brazil. Samples of the sand are sent to UC Davis for research into purification and creating high-grade silica carbide. (Courtesy of Homerun ...