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Texas Frac Sand Boom May Hurt Wisconsin Mines

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Aug 01, 2017 at 11:24 AM CST
https://www.wpr.org/texas-frac-sand-boom-may-hurt-wisconsin-mines Eleven new sand mining operations are being developed in the Lone Star State just down the road from some of the nations busiest oil fields. Companies with plants in Wisconsin, including Hi-Crush Proppants, U.S. Silica, Unimin and Fairmount Santrol are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy sand reserves and build processing facilities in Texas.

Aug 01, 2017 at 11:24 AM CST