Badger Mining Opens Wyoming Transload Facility

Railcars of sand leaving Badger Mining Corp. (BMC) are headed to a different destination for the first time – BMC’s newest transload facility in Bill, Wyo. For Badger Mining, a supplier of Premium Northern-White industrial raw and coated sand, this new location will better serve current and future customers in the Powder River Basin.

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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…

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This Week’s Market Buzz

At an open house on frac sand mining issues at the Howard Town Hall in Colfax, Wisc., organized by the Madison-based nonprofit group Midwest Environmental Advocates and local opponents of frac sand mining, community members spoke about the impact of mining on their lives. It is the first of three such meetings to be held in Western Wisconsin, according to…

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