The rise of fracking as a method for extracting natural gas from shale rock has triggered demand for a key ingredient in the process: silica sand. In parts of the upper Midwest, there's been a rush to ...

Solvay is accelerating its global circularity efforts by converting its highly dispersible silica (HDS) production in Asia to ...

In Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, industrial sand, known as “frac sand,” mining has created thousands of high-paying jobs. Industrial sand mines employ engineers, electricians, welders, chemists, ...