Industrial Minerals


Imerys focuses on oilfield minerals with ceramic proppants unit

20 September 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

USA-based unit will serve booming shale gas market, will have 100,000 tpa output

Keywords: ceramic proppants, shale gas, unconventional, frac sand, silica sand, Imerys

French minerals conglomerate Imerys today announced that its Andersonville, Georgia, USA, production unit for ceramic proppants will be complete and fully operational by the end of 2011.

The proppant production unit, which has cost the group a cool $60m., was built on the Andersonville site where the group already produces rod shaped proppants and mineral drilling additives. This was built in 2007.

It will have an output...