The town of Menomonie Plan Commission on a 3-2 vote Thursday, June 7, recommended the Town Board approve rezoning roughly 150 acres for a rail loading site for silica sand mined in the region. The ...

The Menomonie Town Board on Thursday night, June 14, unanimously approved recommending the rezoning of about 150 acres for a silica sand rail loading site. Vista Sand of Granbury, Texas, wants to ...

The sand that lines beaches, lakes and rivers can often seem like an infinite resource, but 50 billion tonnes of sand is extracted around the world every year, far faster than the sand can be renewed.

Close on the heels of the visit of Mines and Geology Minister C.C. Patil to the district and his warning against illegal sand extraction last week, sand extractors in the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) ...

Authorities in Mexico say gunmen killed five men who were loading sand onto a truck at a riverbank near the resort city of Acapulco, while a shootout in an adjacent state killed one federal police ...