Smart Sand Sets Records in 2Q26, Credits Appalachian Demand

Smart Sand (NASDAQ: SND), the Yardley, Pennsylvania-based frac sand miner that trucks and trains Northern White sand into the Marcellus and Utica from mines a thousand miles away in Wisconsin and Illinois, just turned in what CEO Charles Young calls one of the best quarters in company history — and he put Appalachia at the top of the list of reasons why. Smart Sand sold roughly 1,864,000 tons of sand in the second quarter of 2026, a company record. That’s up 25% from the 1,492,000 tons sold in 1Q26 (itself a record at the time) and up 31% from 1,424,000 tons in 2Q25. Read More “Smart Sand Sets Records in 2Q26, Credits Appalachian Demand”

We first told you about a frac sand company called Smart Sand some 13 years ago (see
We first told you about a frac sand company called Smart Sand some 13 years ago (see
Smart Sand is a fully integrated frac and industrial sand supply and services company, offering complete mine to wellsite proppant and logistics solutions to frac sand customers and a broad offering of products for industrial sand customers. The company produces low-cost, high quality Northern White sand, a premium sand used as a proppant to enhance hydrocarbon recovery rates in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells. The company’s main markets are the Bakken and Marcellus. However, the company is increasingly supplying sand to Ohio Utica drillers.
We can’t resist a good railroad story. We’ve always loved them (we know, we’re weird). Here’s a good railroad story for you: Frack sand company Smart Sand, Inc., headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, has just opened for business and is shipping frack sand to a brand new transloading facility in Waynesburg (Greene County), Pennsylvania.