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 ...

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.

Ohio-based Covia also laid off 82 people at a frac sand mine and plant in Kermit while Missouri-based Capital Sand Proppants laid off 50 people at its nearby facility in Monahans. Houston frac ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Taylor Frac LLC — a newly established sand processing company — likely will go operational at a 350-acre site in the town of Springfield by May 2012. The plant will process frac sand — 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 ...

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 ...

A Minnesota company that began to build a frac sand processing plant in North Branch without the required air-quality permits will pay a $5,000 fine and work with state regulators to collect much ...

today announced that it has started sales of frac sand produced at its Seven Persons frac sand plant (the "7P Plant") near Medicine Hat, Alberta. Sand produced during commissioning is being sold and ...

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 ...