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 Water Resources Department is all set to resume sand mining operations on the banks of the Kollidam River in Tiruchi district after a gap of about two years. Sand quarries would come up at ...

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) ...