Fracsand from a processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. Steve Karnowski/ AP Photo
A frac sand mining company that declared bankruptcy last year is liquidating one of four Wisconsin mines.
Prior to the filing, Texas-based Hi-Crush Proppants was one of the state’s biggest producers of sand used in hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas.
Hi-Crush’s mine in the city of Whitehall opened in 2014 and boasted a production capacity of nearly 3 million tons of frac sand per year. At the time, the price of oil was peaking at more than $100 per barrel and demand for Wisconsin’s “northern white” sand was prized by energy companies for its uniformity and strength.
But over the past four years, oil companies especially those in and …
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