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 ...

It is extraordinary how few people know anything about sand mining. Up to 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel are mined each year to meet soaring demand from construction and land reclamation – ...

At today’s pre-session press briefing, PIM’s Charley Shaw asked what issues the Governor and caucus leaders saw as important for rural Minnesota. The AP reports in Bipartisanship still elusive at Minn ...

RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Fracking, the latest craze in the quest to produce oil and gas, has been blamed for environmental problems ranging from flammable tap water to minor earthquakes. Now a new risk is ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – For seven decades, hundreds of acres of gorgeous costal dune land right by Lake Michigan operated as a massive private sand mining operation that was closed to the public since the ...

H L Langeh langehh17@gmail.com River Sand or Natural sand is a readily available construction material but its resource is very scarce corresponding to the demand in a Himalayan region like the JK UT.

Daniel Franks would like to acknowledge funding and collaboration support from the Queensland Government, Australian Economic Accelerator, Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer, ...

A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a McGill University-led research team has found that a surprisingly large ...

Brazilian authorities have launched a series of operations targeting illegal sand extraction as part of a renewed commitment to fighting environmental crimes. But much more may be required to tackle ...