Houston-area frac sand company U.S. Silica has closed on a $23 million deal to buy a Georgia plant that was used to make ceramics proppants for the hydraulic fracturing process. U.S. Silica ...

In the town center, frac sand is loaded directly onto rail cars on the banks of the Fox River. Drivers have to navigate over the sandy tracks to cross the water. At the entrance to the processing ...

sued the city in an attempt to stop a frac sand processing plant that was eventually constructed inside city limits. Frac sand mining in Arkansas looks nothing like it does in Wisconsin.

Frederick-based U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday that its board of directors has approved the construction of a new, state-of-the-art frac sand mine and plant in West Texas to serve ...

today announced plans to construct a second frac sand mine and processing plant in Jackson County, Wisconsin. “After we reached phase 1 production capacity at our first Wisconsin mine last year ...

The Kermit mine produces 3 million tons of sand annually, the company said. Another frac sand plant will be built in Oklahoma near the town of Fay, around 70 miles northwest of Oklahoma City.

It is worth noting that the plant commenced Phase 1 of frac sand production at the end of July and now aims to double frac capacity in Phase 2 to 600,000 tons per year with minimal required capital.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — A group critical of the frac sand industry in the Chippewa Valley is claiming a local sand plant is producing off-site particle pollution that is “quite possibly” a ...

More than 60 people are out of work in the Tomah area. Unimin Corporation is idling work at its frac sand mining plant in Tunnel City. The company says with the loss of expected orders and the ...

The firm currently owns and operates one plant in the Permian basin, with production capacity of approximately three million tons of high-quality frac sand per year. Alpine Silica has secured ...

Now she’s worried about threats to air quality and property values because of a planned “frac sand” processing center ... and a local processing plant would bring jobs and foster economic ...

The company also is developing another frac sand plant in Oklahoma near Fay, about 70 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. That plant, too, will produce 3 million tons of sand annually to serve the ...