Industrial Minerals


Carmeuse puts frac sand business up for sale

08 February 2012

by John Ollett

US minerals company to focus on core lime and limestone business

Keywords: Carmeuse, frac sand, limestone, lime, oilfield minerals

Carmeuse Group has put its Industrial Sands business up for sale at the height of a North American frac sand boom to focus on its core assets of lime and limestone.

Yves Schoonejans, the company’s chief financial officer, confirmed to IM that Carmeuse “is effectively engaged in the process of divesting from its US...