Jack Elliott
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| Stikine’s Nonda deposit (pictured) is just 150km west of the Horn River Basin, Canada. Stikine Gold Corp. |
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Interstate Energy Partners LLC (IE Partners) will start mining at its frac sand facility in Wisconsin “in the coming weeks” in a step to establish itself as a US supplier of the oilfield proppant mineral, the Minneapolis-based company told
IM.
The company has a mine in Grantsburg, western Wisconsin, where it hopes to produce 300,000 tpa of frac sand from a small vein in the Jordan Formation.
“We’re a smaller operation than some of the big players, but we’ve spoken to some end users and they’ve expressed strong interest in the quality of our sand,” Nate Holmberg, managing partner at IE...