Industrial Minerals


CSP frac sand mining approved

14 December 2009

by Jessica Roberts

Canadian Sand & Proppants to develop 2m. tpa frac sand mine in Wisconsin, USA

Keywords: Frac sand, proppants, Canadian Sand & Proppants, oil, gas, drilling

USA-based Canadian Sand & Proppants Inc. (CSP) is free to begin mining fracturing (frac) sand from its deposit in Howard, Wisconsin, after the Chippewa County Circuit Court ruled that the town’s existing non-metallic mining ordinance was invalid.

 

Gary Stone, vice president of operations for CSP, told...