silica sand mining in wisconsin and minnesota

Posted at: August 1, 2012

Silica sand is the new gold | StarTribune.com Jun 11, 2011 · Wisconsin officials recently counted 120 to 190 mining operations that…

  • Silica sand is the new gold | StarTribune.com

    Jun 11, 2011 · Wisconsin officials recently counted 120 to 190 mining operations that produce silica dust, although not all are sand mines. In Minnesota, there is a …

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  • Frac sand miningMinnesota Pollution Control Agency

    Frac sand mining information, Minnesota Pollution … The Wisconsin DNR recently released a study summarizing current information on silica sand mining, its …

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  • In southeastern Minnesota, some Amish families …

    In the mining industry, the silica sand beneath the bluffs of southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin is called "yellow gold." In a March 2012 file photo, a pile …

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  • PreferredSands : Silica Sand Products – Materials …

    Wisconsin; Arizona; Canada; Quality Control … Our Minnesota facilities have in excess of 40 million tons of high quality Northern White silica sand, and have the …

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  • What is Silica and Why is Mining It Controversial?

    Courtesy Rochester Post Bulletin. Demand for silica sand has driven what some are calling “the new gold rush.” Since 2008, Wisconsin has built 16 silica sand mines.

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  • Sand surge – fedgazette – Publications & Papers | The …

    In Minnesota and Wisconsin, frac sand mining has lifted local economies—and stirred opposition … Although silica sand mining is not considered as …

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  • Industrial Silica Sand FAQs: Minnesota DNR

    UPCOMING EVENT: Conference on the Silica Sand Resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin . Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Precambrian …

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  • SE Minnesota residents not digging the ‘sand rush’ | …

    Frac sand mining is to silica-sand rich … said curtailing mining operations on the Minnesota side of the river would be a missed economic opportunity. Sand from Wisconsin

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  • SE Minnesota residents not digging the ‘sand rush’ | …

    Frac sand mining is to silica-sand rich … said curtailing mining operations on the Minnesota side of the river would be a missed economic opportunity. Sand from Wisconsin

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  • Frac sand mining erupts in Winona County | …

    Jan 03, 2012 · governments in Wisconsin and Minnesota that have agreed to stop, at least for a while, a booming business in mining and processing silica sand.

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  • Sand mining surges in Wisconsin | WisconsinWatch.org

    While all types of silica sand in Wisconsin produce airborne particles, the freshly fractured silica that comes from mining … is “like the iron mines of Minnesota

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  • Amish near St. Charles concerned by silica mining

    "I wish the sand was 100 miles away," said Gingerich, 44. In the mining industry, the silica sand beneath the bluffs of southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin

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  • Citizens Against Silica Mining "Save-The-Bluffs" | …

    Silica Sand Mining in Hay Creek, Red Wing, Frontenac and Lake City Minnesota … plane banked to the right over western Wisconsin

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  • Silica Sand Mining Companies in the United States

    Mar 06, 2012 · Search or browse our list of silica sand mining companies by … N7815 County Highway P, Taylor WI … 35496 468th Street, Kasota MN

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  • Industrial Silica Sands of Minnesota

    receive silica sand from various mining opera‐ tions in Minnesota and Wisconsin. To date, five counties, Winona, Goodhue, Wabasha, Hous‐

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  • Goodhue County officials vote to ban silica sand

    … block a controversial kind of sand mining in the southeastern Minnesota … County officials vote to ban silica sand mining for … Sand in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin

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  • "Frac" sandstorm in Goodhue County – Cannon Falls …

    Anyone who has seen the Mississippi valley in southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin … We should consider amending the Ordinance to prohibit silica sand mining

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  • Our view: Sand mining deserves careful consideration

    WI News; World; National News; Strange; Cops & Courts; MN Lottery … That’s not unlike some other Minnesota counties that have put the breaks on sand mining.

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  • Oil Company Disappointed In Frac Sand Mining Ban « …

    … to mine a special kind of sand in southeastern Minnesota … in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan with deposits of “frac” sand, round grains of silica sand

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  • Frack sand boom vexing Minnesota and Wisconsin | …

    Local and state officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin struggle to keep pace with a new mining boom fed by … that the Upper Midwest is a prime source for silica sand

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