Industrial Minerals


Preferred Sands acquires Winn Bay Sand assets for $200m

05 January 2012

by Jack Elliott

Group emerges as largest frac sand producer in Canada; plans to expand plants

Keywords: Preferred Sands, frac sand, oil drilling, proppants

Preferred Sands has acquired all the assets of Winn Bay Sand for an excess of $200m, including mining locations in Wisconsin, US, and Saskatchewan, Canada.

The company said that the acquisition makes it...