Outside this city of 1,300, Preferred Sands turns Wisconsin’s sandy soil into a hot commodity. A wall of green trees opens to a vast expanse of sand buzzing with activity. Excavators mine and ...

CHICAGO (June 8) – A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute shows industrial sand mining has been “a significant driver of economic growth across the Upper Midwest.” If done in an ...

Dogged by low oil prices, Wisconsin’s once-booming frac sand mining industry is down but not out. An industry trade magazine will host a two-day conference next week in La Crosse where the goal is to ...

A frac sand mining operation must pay $80,000 for discharging sediment into Burnett County wetlands, a creek and the St. Croix River, which is part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. A ...

Gloria Schultz, a disabled woman, has been living near a frac sand mine in Western Wisconsin for over a year. The homeowner claims that the mining activity causes damage to her home, and that constant ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is allowing more frac sand mines to open even though it let its environmental regulations on the industry expire nine months ago because the rules didn’t ...

More than 50 people gathered in Minneapolis Monday to protest frac sand mining outside a conference on the silica sand resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin. “This is total destruction,” said Kathleen ...

The frac sand boom has divided residents into those who believe mining will create sorely needed jobs in rural Wisconsin and those who fear the impacts these mines may have on human health, road ...

The frac sand boom has divided residents into those who believe mining will create sorely needed jobs in rural Wisconsin and those who fear the impacts these mines may have on human health, road ...