The Seven Persons frac sand plant is processing concentrated sand imported from Wisconsin and selling various grades of high-quality frac sand. The plant is located near potential customers and within a few hours trucking distance of major oil and gas well sites. It represents the first phase of Victory Nickel’s three-phase plan for its frac sand business.

Phase 2 includes construction of a frac sand wet plant in Wisconsin, which is expected to reduce costs and assure security of sand supply through ownership of a frac sand mine in the state. In phase 3, the company intends to construct a larger frac sand plant in Manitoba to process and distribute both imported and domestic sand, which may potentially, but not necessarily, include sand mined as a co-product of nickel at Minago. The company has identified a site in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for this plant.

Victory Silica CEO Ken Murdock said, “Going from a standing start to first frac sand production and sales in less than two years is quite an achievement. We now have 70% of the Medicine Hat-based oil field service companies as customers. This is just the beginning, however, and we have begun the push to implement phase 2 of our business plan.”