The La Crosse Center is playing host to the Frac Sand Insider conference which began Tuesday. Frac sand mining is the mining of sand that is used in the fracking process to get oil and natural gas out ...

ST. PAUL — Attorneys on both sides of the Minnesota Sands LLC vs. Winona County case over the county’s ban on frac sand mining argued their points Thursday morning in the Minnesota Court of Appeals in ...

Between the unprecedented call by state agencies for Winona County to draft a frac sand EAW and outrage over the hiring of Red Wing Mayor Dennis Egan to lobby for the Minnesota Industrial Sand Council ...

The city of Winona could have a one-year ban on some silica sand-related businesses by the end of the day. The city council plans to meet this afternoon during an emergency meeting to consider a ...

Fred Troendel, at podium, served as mediator at a community meeting in St. Charles, Minn. Wednesday evening at Faith Lutheran Church to inform St. Charles residents about a proposed sand washing and ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. (“Mammoth” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:TUSK) announced today that it was the successful bidder in a bankruptcy court ...

Minnesota Public Radio and other media are reporting that Wabasha group appeals OK of silica sand facility: A citizens’ group in Wabasha has appealed the city’s recent decision to allow a ...

Thirty-five people were arrested for trespassing Monday in Winona after attempting to temporarily halt operations at two frac sand facilities. More than 100 people, many of them Catholic Workers from ...

A proposed sand quarry on public land near Dinosaur National Monument has been sidetracked into a bureaucratic inquiry regarding how to classify sand used in oil and gas drilling operations. A company ...

Long before sunrise, Molly Sizer starts her day in West Texas as a professional frac sand hauler. She gets dressed, drives her Peterbilt truck to one of the dozens of frac mines around the Permian ...