Our Proud History

We are the major distributor of sub-round grain silica sand across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Northwestern Ontario.

Selkirk Silica's origins started in the late 1960s to serve the demand for silica sand in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and surrounding areas.

Originally, Selkirk Silica was formed as a mining operation to extract the silica sand from Black Island and process it in Selkirk for the glass industry. Operations on the island ceased in the late 1980s and Selkirk Silica has since imported the highest quality of silica sand in North America.

Our silica sand is >99.69% SiO2.

As time has gone on, Selkirk Silica has been proudly supplying the silica sand used in Manitoba foundries, water filtration plants, drilling companies, surface preparation applications, landscaping and many others in Saskatchewan and Alberta and Northwestern Ontario.

The silica sand market that we support depends on reliable chemical purity and consistently uniform particle size distributions for predictable performance.

All of our sands are mined, washed, dried twice, sized and screened under strict quality guidelines.