The Anasazi, a once-flourishing tribe in the American Southwest, lived on bounties of corn, squash and beans. In 1276 A.D., ...

Texas' oil and gas industry is seeing a boom — thanks in large part to the relatively new oil-drilling method called fracking. Late last year, Texas oil helped push the country to become the largest ...

Houston-based Hi-Crush Partners said it is idling one of its Wisconsin sand mining plants because of weakening demand triggered by oil pipeline constraints in West Texas' Permian Basin. The sand mines ...

Unimin Corp., a Connecticut mining company, plans carve out a sand processing plant in West Texas in a bid to supply drillers with local frack sand, it said Thursday. The sand plant, expected to come ...

The foundation of Palm Beach’s coastal restoration plan has saltwater rusting its joints, hurricanes pounding at its hatches and a daily diet of gritty slurry eroding its belly. But for most of the ...

The sand transfer plant is pumping less than half its usual volume of sand this year, but there’s nothing wrong with the plant itself, Coastal Program Manager Robert Weber said. The plant is located ...

The last coastal sand mine in the United States, a Monterey Bay plant that scientists say has caused significant erosion of beaches in the area, will close in three years under a settlement agreement ...

KERMIT, TX (KWES) - Two people were injured after an infrastructure collapse at the Vest Mine in Kermit Wednesday. According to the Kermit Police Department, they received a call at 4:53 P.M. stating ...

MARINA — The sands are shifting on Marina and nearby beaches as the country’s last coastal sand mine nears shut down in Marina. On Dec. 31, the CEMEX Lapis sand plant in Marina will permanently close, ...