The World’s Second-Longest Conveyor Belt Is Rolling in West Texas Transporting sand to petroleum frackers is often expensive—and dangerous. A big bet on a mammoth machine aims to change that.

A new, record-breaking conveyor belt is changing how sand is transported for hydraulic fracturing across the southwest United States. Spanning 42 miles, Atlas Energy Solutions' "Dune Express" is ...

Another conveyor belt believed to be the world’s longest conveyor — at 61 miles long — carries phosphorous from a mine in Western Sahara on the northwest coast of Africa, ...

But a conveyor belt was deemed the least expensive and most reliable option. And a picture of a 42-mile-long conveyor belt. Photograph: Trevor Paulhus / Texas Monthly ...

Spanning 42 miles, Atlas Energy Solutions' "Dune Express" is the longest conveyor belt in the country, cutting across oil fields from Kermit, Texas, to Lea County, New Mexico.