A worker has died at a sand mine in Lochaber. Emergency services were called to Lochaline Quartz Sand Ltd at Lochaline at about 12:25 on Monday. Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Some jurisdictions are trying to crack down on illegal mining, but the world's insatiable demand for sand is unlikely to slow. As one of the deadliest typhoons in decades ripped through Vietnam ...

Take a walk along a beach in parts of South Australia, and you may come across unusual patches of pink sand. When a team of geologists began analysing samples of this mysterious sand to find out ...

What can you see at the beach? Sunsets, crashing waves, shells, sea turtles, and fleas. Wait, fleas? Yes, sand fleas are a thing, and most of us have spotted them hopping around the shoreline. They’re ...

TOOL are getting in on the destination festival business. The beloved prog-metal institution announced today (October 24th) that they’ll be launching their inaugural TOOL Live in the Sand fest March ...

China Petroleum & Natural Gas Corporation, Tarim Oilfield Company, Korla, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 841000, China R&D Center for Ultra-Deep Complex Reservoir Exploration and Development, CNPC, ...

Patrick Sand was so deeply embedded in West Seattle that when he died suddenly Thursday, it seemed like everybody living there knew about it, and grieved. Many had read about the 67-year-old’s ...

The development of low-porosity and low-permeability oil reservoirs in the Changqing oilfield presents a significant challenge due to the high injection pressure and limited space for profile control ...

• Carbon capture and sequestration pilot and commercial projects in operation around the world. This paper seeks to address this gap by thoroughly reviewing current CO 2 capture and storage ...