A worker has died at a sand mine in Lochaber. Emergency services were called to Lochaline Quartz Sand Ltd at Lochaline at about 12:25 on Monday. Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Some jurisdictions are trying to crack down on illegal mining, but the world's insatiable demand for sand is unlikely to slow. As one of the deadliest typhoons in decades ripped through Vietnam, a ...

Take a walk along a beach in parts of South Australia, and you may come across unusual patches of pink sand. When a team of geologists began analysing samples of this mysterious sand to find out ...

TOOL are getting in on the destination festival business. The beloved prog-metal institution announced today (October 24th) that they’ll be launching their inaugural TOOL Live in the Sand fest March ...

What can you see at the beach? Sunsets, crashing waves, shells, sea turtles, and fleas. Wait, fleas? Yes, sand fleas are a thing, and most of us have spotted them hopping around the shoreline. They’re ...

The government of Zanzibar has opened a blockchain sandbox to encourage tech startups, according to a local press report. The semi-autonomous region of the United Republic of Tanzania is calling ...

Cast your mind back a month, and you may remember a promising-looking open-world sandbox popping up in Sony's September PlayStation State of Play. That game was Towers of Aghasba, and it now has ...

Blade & Sorcery: Nomad, the physics-based combat sandbox for Quest, has essentially been the little brother to the PC VR game ever since it released in 2021. With the addition of the game’s ...

Patrick Sand was so deeply embedded in West Seattle that when he died suddenly Thursday, it seemed like everybody living there knew about it, and grieved. Many had read about the 67-year-old’s ...

Asked about climate change last week, Trump gave a rambling answer about getting “environmental awards” for “the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water.” We’re not really ...

My latest Steam Next Fest obsession is the demo for The Precinct, an old-school top-down open-world sandbox game that plays a lot like Grand Theft Auto except you play as a cop instead of a ...