Mining company Sio Silica has offered Brokenhead Ojibway Nation a five per cent share of profits from its proposed ...

The proposed 10-year sand mining project — with a two year additional reclamation period — would extract 4.3 million cubic ...

Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.

Mahabubnagar: Illegal sand mining continues unchecked in Koilkonda, sparking public outrage and raising serious questions ...

Mining companies get the sand by blasting chunks off the region’s rolling hillsides and washing away the other soil and rock. Nearly every step of the process poses problems for surrounding ...

Other impacts are hard to directly link to sand mining since rivers are affected by so many different factors, including dams, but it is clear that by sucking too much sediment out of the world’s ...

A clash in Rajasthan's Nagaur district between sand mining operators and villagers resulted in five injuries, leading to ...

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has appealed to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to urgently address illegal sand mining in the ...

Frac sand mining in Arkansas looks nothing like it does in Wisconsin. Only one company, Guion’s Unimin, is actively mining frac sand. But in the past three years, despite low natural gas prices ...

Sand mining accounts for 85 percent of all worldwide mineral extraction, a $70 billion industry. In Cambodia, the practice is big business -- but it comes with a price. The country relies upon the ...

Sand mining is prohibited in Southampton, a municipality of about 70,000 residents in Suffolk County on Long Island. But Sand Land, which has been in operation since the 1960s, ...

The sand mining industry is lucrative. But the practice can harm the region's aquifer, Long Island's only source of drinking water, environmentalists have said. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.