B.C. grants environmental assessment for sand mine near Prince George

B.C. has issued an environmental assessment certificate for a new open-pit silica sand mine north of Prince George.
The Vitreo Minerals-owned Angus Project, roughly 60 kilometres north of Prince George and 10 kilometres east of Bear Lake, is expected to generate $300 million in investment, creating 150 jobs during construction and 140 during operations.
The type of sand produced by this mine is used in hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, to prop open the fractures created in