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The Importance of Hard Sand for Fracking
Fracking is a method of extracting oil and gas from rock formations. In Wisconsin, mining companies are tearing up agricultural land in order to get at this frack sand that they then sell to drillers in North Dakota and Texas. There's no oil or gas in Wisconsin at all, but the fracking boom has created a frack sand mining boom in Wisconsin.