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US silica sand production

by state & region*
Leading US silica sand producers
INERALS Responsible for 86% (25.7m tonnes)* of total US industrial
Top five silica sand producing US states
accounting for 52% total US production
RASHEED PERFORMANCE MINERALS silica sand production in descending order of production
volume: (‘000s tonnes total industrial silica sand)

INERALS
RASHEED PERFORMANCE MINERALS
Unimin Corp.
USS Silica Holdings Inc.
Illinois 4,370 15.0%

Fairmount Minerals
Preferred Sands LLC
Texas 3,610 12.5%
Premier Silica LLC
Badger Mining Corp. Wisconsin Frac Sand Activity Wisconsin 3,390 11.3%
EOG Resources Inc. Showing clusters (yellow) of operational, developing, and
RPMinerals.com Pattison Sand Co. Wisconsin proposed frac sand mines and plants within the favourable
Cambrian sandstone zone (orange); specifically the Jordan, Minnesota 1,940 6.7%
Manley Bros. of Indiana Badger Mining, Fairwater
High Performance Mineral Products & Short Mountain Silica Co. Wonewoc, and Mt Simon formations
Badger Mining, Taylor
Speciality Chemical Products for Drilling Fluids EOG Resources, Cooks Oklahoma 1,900 6.5%
API Grade Bentonite Notes: Minnesota Valley
API Grade Barite • Most of the above serve all silica sand markets, but have Preferred Sands, Woodbury EOG Resources, Howard
Organophilic Clay Products recently invested in raising their frac sand capacities by Unimin, Ottawa
Total US 29,900
Fairmount, Bay City
Organophilic Lignite Products plant output grade reallocation, plant expansions, and new Unimin, Kasota Fairmount, Maiden Rock
Emulsifiers, Wetting Agents mine development
Unimin, Kasota South Fairmount, Menomonie
Testing Equipment • Indicated company mine locations by state (bold Frac sand production & average US$/tonne
Preferred Sands, Blair
borders) are those specifically supplying frac sand, some Niobrara* by US region (total 12.1m tonnes)
Authorized Fann® Distributor and Fann® companies have additional silica sand mines supplying Preferred Sands, Bloomer
other markets Unimin, Portage
Equipment Repair and Calibration Center located Bakken*** Eau Claire
in Amreya Free Trade Zone, Alexandria, Egypt • Premier Silica (formerly Carmeuse Industrial Sand)
and EOG are captive frac sand sources for oil and gas
Michigan South
Fairmount, Harrietta 31% ($48.43)
Manufacturing and mineral processing facilities exploration companies – a trend the market may see more
of in the future US Silica, Rockwood
located in Borg El Arab and Amreya Free Northeast
Zone convenient to the Port of Alexandria, • Certain companies, such as Preferred Sands, US Silica, Williston 8.0% ($44.15)
Sukhna Port, Port Said, and Suez Port. are also investing in resin coated frac sand plants, using Power River Basin Devonian (Ohio)
material from one or more mines Big Horn
Basin
ISO 9001:2008 Certified Basin West
* Based on published USGS 2012 data for supply in 2010; Mowry Appalachian 1% ($35.41)
the same top 10 producers remain in 2012 although Midwest
info@RPMinerals.com regarding specifically frac sand production capacity, in Michigan Antrim Basin 0 km 100 67% ($43.78)
Egypt: +20.122.795.1997 2012 Preferred Sands probably edged up to the no.2 or Greater Basin
USA: +1.303.902.4048 no.3 ranking with 6m tpa, below Unimin (est. 7m tpa). Iowa
However, EOG Resources, Fairmount Minerals, Premier Green Hikkiard In recent years, frac sand activity in Wisconsin has boomed,
Pattison Sand, including a 100% increase from 2011 to 2012, from just a
A H I S TO R Y O F I N N O VAT I O N A N D R E L I A B I L I T Y Silica, and US Silica, and are all pursuing frac sand mine River Baxter handful of facilities to >100 sites.
* see Note in panel left of map
Niobrabra* Clayton
expansions and new developments and so would be Basin These include mines, processing plants, and transloading
expected to increase frac sand capacity in 2013-2014. Mancos Park
Forest City stations concentrated in the Maiden Rock area, near
Uinta Basin Basin Nebraska Illinois Chippewa Falls, and in Trempealeau and Monroe counties.
Basin
Mancos Preferred Sands, Genoa Basin As of August 2012 there were 87 permitted sites (51
operational, 36 in development) and 20 sites at proposal
Marcellus stage, which include the following selection of companies:
Piceance Denver Cherokee
San Joaquin
Basin Basin Platform New Jersey In development Proposed
Basin Hernosa Excello- New Canadian Sand and

Monterey-
Mulky Missouri Albany
Unimin, Dividing Creek
Proppants m+p A & M Mikl Sands m+p IÄÄÊòƒã®ò›&®Ä›Ͳ¦Ù®Ä—®Ä¦
Utica EOG Resources m+p B&B Sands m
Temblor Paradox Basin
Unimin, Peverly
US Silica, Pacific
Fairview/Smart Sand m+p Bethke m d›‘«Äʽʦù¥ÊÙ㫛Ãç—
Lewis
Raton Woodford
Glacier Sands
Great Northern Sand
m+p
m+p
Chieftan Sand
Copper Road Minerals
m+p
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San Juan Basin Anadarko
Ohio LLC m+p
Basin Fairmount, Chardron Hi Crush Proppants LLC m+p Five Star Properties m
Basin
Oklahoma Fayetteville Premier Silica, Glass Rock Northern Frac Sand p Glacier Sands 2 m+p
Black Warrior Premier Silica, Millwood
Monterey Unimin, Roff Preferred Sands 2 m High County Sand LLC m
Palo Duro Arkoma Basin Basin Superior Silica Sands 2 p Jackson Sand m+p
US Silica, Mill Creek
Arizona Basin Arkansas Conasauga
Tennessee US Silica m+p Paramount Sands m+p
Preferred Sands, Sanders Unimin, Guion Premier Silica m+p
Short Mountain Silica,
Unimin, Guion II Mooresburg Sioux Creek Silica
LLC m+p
Barnett Superior Silica Sands m
Haynesville-
Permian TX-LA-MS Taylor Creek Transit m
Ft. Worth Bossier
Basin Salt Basin Vista Sand m+rlo
Barnett Marfa Basin
Legend Woodford Basin


Wisconsin Industrial
Sand LLC m
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Current shale plays m mine ; p plant; rlo rail load-out
State Illinois Barite and Bentonite
Basin hosting shale plays and Source: adapted from data from Wisconsin Center for
Fairmount, Wedron Investigative Journalism
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Manley Bros., Troy Grove
Source: Energy Information Administration,
See also Note in panel left of map
US Dept. of Energy, 2011 shale play data Eagle Ford Unmin, Oregon standards 13-A/OCMA
Unimin, Utica
Scale: 0 km 200
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Unimin, Utica II
Premier Silica, Brady Western US Silica, Ottawa ͻZĞƚƌŽͲĮƚĨĞĂƐĂďŝůŝƚLJĂŶĚƚƵƌŶͲŬĞLJƉůĂŶƚ
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