According to the Houston County News, The Minnesota Court of Appeals on July 20 reversed a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources decision that a Houston silica sand mine may not operate until the owners obtain a trout stream setback permit. The court determined that the Erickson Sand Mine is not a “new project,” so the mine can legally operate, according…
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Transload Facility Targets Dust Control
DustPRO LLC has installed its first DustPRO Application Unit in the Northeast region at a transload facility operated by Matriculated Services, LLC. The first-of-its-kind DustPRO Application Unit was seamlessly integrated with existing site operations at the Morgantown Industrial Park in Morgantown, W.Va., and the first job coated 5,000 tons of sand to reduce airborne particles and crystalline silica exposure at…
Read MoreWisconsin Operator Uses DSC Dredge To Mine Sand
Coulee Frac Sand, based in La Crosse, Wis., recently took delivery of a 10-in. Wolverine Class cutter suction dredge by DSC Dredge LLC. The dredge, which was designed and manufactured at DSC Dredge’s Greenbush, Mich., facility, is mining sand at the PineCrest Mine on the site of Doc’s Bunkhouse campground, near the town of Merrillan in central Wisconsin. As groundwater…
Read MoreBrilliant Sands Hires Exploration And Development Firm
Brilliant Sands Inc. (BSI) announced that it has hired Morton Jagodich Inc. (MJI) to assist with the exploration and development of BSI’s frac sand projects located in Alberta and Manitoba, Canada. MJI is a geoscience and geotechnical engineering firm based in Canada with regional offices located throughout the country.
Read MoreUnimin Delivers Largest-Ever Frac Sand Unit Train
Unimin Energy Solutions announced the delivery of the energy industry’s longest frac sand unit train. Unimin, together with Union Pacific Railroad and Twin Eagle Sand Logistics LLC, delivered a 140-car unit train to the Mission Rail Terminal in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale at Elmendorf, Texas. The unit train, powered by four diesel engines and measuring 6,200 ft.,…
Read MoreThis Week’s Market Buzz
Proxibid was selected by Hilco Industrial and Gordon Brothers Group as one of the groups to offer live online bidding for its upcoming auction of machinery and equipment used for the production and distribution of premium grade frac sand. The auction will take place July 28 at 10:00 a.m. CST in Saskatoon, SK, Canada, with live online bidding taking place…
Read MoreClaim Post Amends Gossan Resources Agreement
Claim Post Resources Inc. amended its Manigotagan Agreement with Gossan Resources Ltd. to provide an extension in the due date of a $430,000 payment for six months to Dec. 18, 2015, subject to interest at 1 percent per month, and a payment of 1,000,000 common shares of Claim Post, as well as an increase in the advance royalty provisions. The…
Read MoreRohr-Idreco Supplies Frac Sand Dredge
Rohr-Idreco has designed, built and installed an RISD400-M (16-in.) electric dredge for application in the frac sand mining industry.
Read MorePreferred Sands Touts Performance of its RCS Product
Preferred Sands announced that its Garnet resin-coated sand (RCS) product outperformed by approximately 90 percent the highest producing conventional resin available in the Permian Basin, based on a study sampling 2,099 horizontal wells in the Permian from January 2013 through December 2014.
Read MoreWestmoreland Coal Partners with Athabasca
Westmoreland Coal Co. through its Coal Valley Resources Inc. subsidiary, has entered into an agreement with Athabasca Minerals Inc. that will result in the production of aggregate from Westmoreland’s Obed Mountain Mine site.
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