Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Steve Harmon’s house shakes when the mining company 100 yards away blasts into what was once farmland. His patio is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 30—Except for the oil and natural gas themselves, one of the oilfield's hottest commodities these days is the sand used to ...

There’s a race raging in West Texas – not just for more oil, but for sand. A sand mining industry has emerged in West Texas that was virtually nonexistent a decade ago thanks to the rise of hydraulic ...

The sand is pumped underground along with water and other chemicals to extract oil and natural gas trapped deep in rock. But researchers found... Sand From Fracking Could Pose Lung Disease Risk To ...

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 ...

CLAYTON COUNTY - The growing demand for frac sand - mined primarily in Wisconsin and Minnesota but also in northeast Iowa - threatens human health, the environment and local economies, according to a ...

Sand from the upper Midwest is coveted for hydraulic fracturing. It is the right size, shape and cleanness (almost pure quartz). It is also highly resistant to crushing under immense pressure, acting ...

Wisconsin state environmental officials say they have no plans to impose new restrictions on the mining of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas. The state Department of Natural ...

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 ...

Sidley plans to soon have 50 pneumatic tankers hauling fracking sand to area natural gas wells. Photo by Tom Berg. A recent visit to northeast Ohio put me face to face with people involved in the ...

When workplace safety expert Eric Esswein got a chance to see fracking in action not too long ago, what he noticed was all the dust. It was coming off big machines used to haul around huge loads of ...