About us
The Founder
The Company was founded in 2012 by Richard Frick, who grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Minnesota. Before founding the Company, Rick worked in farming, trucking and, most recently, in agricultural transportation, logistics, and facilities operatons. It was in his role in trans-loading trucks and railcars that Mr. Frick became aware of the value certain types of silica sand have in the oil and gas industry. Coupling this awareness with his knowledge of
local geology, in 2011 Rick began locating and testing potential sand mine sites. This testing and evaluation found sand from certain sites to have qualities and characteristics that make it ideal for use in hydraulic fracturing and Rick created Minnesota Sands.
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The Company
Minnesota Sands is a locally owned company that will provide custom natural sand proppants using high quality Minnesota quartz and substrates for its customers to use in the oil and natural gas industries. The company is committed to making sure a Minnesota natural resource is developed in a way that respects the environment while also making sure it benefits local communities through the creation of good paying, steady jobs.
Minnesota Sands leadership, investors, and others working on the project are from Minnesota and are committed to making sure the company and its operations are managed in a way that reflects this connection to the community.
Minnesota Sands holds leases to land with over 100 million estimated tons of monocrystalline silica sand meeting American Petroleum Institute (API) specifications for use as a proppant in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells.
The senior leadership team at Minnesota Sands has XXX years of experience in the industry that includes specific expertise in mining, sand processing, environmental science and engineering, logistics, and fiscal management. The company is supported by significant investor resources to make sure it will be able to meet community and industry needs for many years.
