Sand mining is prohibited in Southampton, a municipality of about 70,000 residents in Suffolk County on Long Island. But Sand Land, which has been in operation since the 1960s, ...

In 1955, the oversight of sand, gravel and other aggregates was moved from the 1872 Mining Law to the 1947 Mineral Materials Act, making it harder to establish mining claims on such deposits.

Harrison County Sand Beach director Trey McKnight says this could potentially be the first of many Mobi-Mats beachgoers on ...

Registered to Allen Jefferson Earp, 421 Sand Mine, LLC’s plan includes a 50-foot-wide buffer around the perimeter of the 144-acre mine and an additional 25-foot vegetative buffer along U.S. 421 ...

The sand mining industry is lucrative. But the practice can harm the region's aquifer, Long Island's only source of drinking water, environmentalists have said. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.

The Cottonwood Sand Mine would cover more than 200 acres in the unincorporated Valle De Oro area, near Jamul, and has been working its way through the approval process since 2018.

Southampton Town officials have launched an environmental review of their proposal to phase out sand mines near residential areas over a seven-year period. The legislation, introduced in late ...

In 2011, development of the coastline began after PT Anugrah Mitra Graha (AMG) obtained a 15-year permit to mine sand from 1,348 hectares (3,330 acres) of Lombok’s east coast in an area known as ...

Dalton residents have raised issues with the sand mine operation as far back as 1976. The heart of the dispute originates with the alleged dust blowing. For the past three years, Berkshire Concrete ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – For seven decades, hundreds of acres of gorgeous costal dune land right by Lake Michigan operated as a massive private sand mining operation that was closed to the public ...