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B.C. company wants to open $300M made-in-Canada sand mine to fuel anticipated fracking, LNG boom

B.C. company wants to open $300M made-in-Canada sand mine to fuel anticipated fracking, LNG boom

A B.C.-based company wants to open a sand mine north of Prince George to provide a made-in-Canada solution to an anticipated boost in liquefied natural gas production.Vitreo Minerals' proposed silica sand mine, about 60 kilometres north of the city, near Bear Lake, would produce sand used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to prop open the fractures that […]

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