Two companies, US Strategic Metals and The Doe Run Company, are running two different projects to produce cobalt in Missouri. The Democratic Republic of the Congo recently restricted exports of the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A permit awarded last month to a western Missouri mining ...

NexGen Mining Inc. plans to mine silica sand in Ste. Genevieve County despite blowback from residents concerned about how the mine might affect native wildlife or residents who get their drinking ...

During the supply chain shortages in the pandemic, the nationwide lack of semiconductors and pharmaceuticals led Missouri officials to consider the state’s own ability to produce pivotal parts of the ...

Mining cryptocurrency requires enormous amounts of computing power and electricity, both to keep the digital calculations going and to cool the machines doing the work. A legislator from St. Charles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRANBY, Mo. — We’re days away from celebrating what locals claim to be, the oldest mining town in southwest Missouri. The City of ...

A plan to build a silica mine in southeast Missouri suffered yet another setback on Tuesday when an appeals court ruled state regulators were within their authority to deny the project a permit. The ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is expected to reclaim more than 10,000 acres of abandoned coal mine sites across the state. The department recently received $5.8 ...

A company called Nexgen Silica hopes to build a mine in St. Genevieve County. Residents who live with the toxic legacy of lead mining worry history could be repeating itself. Pickle Creek runs two ...

To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up, all one has to do is look at Richard Rankin’s backyard in Missouri. The septic system of his ...