In Wisconsin, press reports have called frac sand the “new gold rush,” because of its critical importance in the process using hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – to extract oil and natural gas. The state’s abundant deposits of coarse-grained quartz sand have been mined for more than 100 years, but today, oil and gas industries prize this sand that is found in the state’s countryside. Today, Taylor Frac, in Taylor, Wis., provides energy prod

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