Simon Morrow was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Discover in 2018. View Full Profile. Beach sand varies widely in composition. Above (clockwise from left) is sand from New York, Zimbabwe, Hawaii, ...

Chalk up another sizable investment in Bexar County — this one nearly $50 million — to the Eagle Ford Shale play. Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway Co. and Frederick, Md.-based U.S. Silica Holdings Inc.

Scott County's first silica sand mine opened 30 years ago, on a plot of land between Jordan and Shakopee. But after ten years, due to a lack of demand, it closed. Fast-forward to last month, when ...

U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. SLCA said that it intends to construct a second frac sand mine and plant in West Texas to cater the fast-growing Permian Basin. The state-of-the-art facility is expected to ...

Sand is a very common unconsolidated sedimentary rock, with its particle size varying between 0.063 and 2.0 mm. It also has an extremely variable mineral composition. Many types contain quartz or ...

CALGARY — Even the smallest grain of sand is of consequence to Brad Thomson, the CEO of Calgary-based Source Energy Services Canada LP. Of the million-odd horizontal wells scattered around North ...

Under the cover of darkness every night, valuable silica sand is being illegally extracted by a syndicate from streams within ...