Industrial Minerals


Smart Sand frac sand plant to start in June 2012

08 June 2012

by Mike O'Driscoll

Clearlake Capital investment in Wisconsin frac sand facility about to come to fruition

Keywords: Frac sand, silica sand, frac, proppants, hydraulic fracturing, shale gas, Smart Sand, Clearlake

Smart Sand Inc. is bringing its new frac sand processing plant in Oakdale, Wisconsin on stream later this month.

Located on more than 1,100 acres, the Oakdale plant has an initial processing capacity of >1m tpa frac sand, and with another recently announced injection of investment from Clearlake Capital Group LP, is expected to...