Three's company

摘要

Doug Schmidt had no experience in mining or aggregates four years ago when he and two business partners came across an opportunity to mine frac sand at Doc's Bunkhouse, a campground in Merrillan, Wis. "We came up to this area and saw lots of frac sand somewhat in our own backyard that could be sold to oil fracking companies," Schmidt says. So Schmidt and his partners, Greg Cashman and Jon Sopher, launched Coulee Frac Sand, a frac sand mining operation, and dubbed the site PineCrest Mine.