See more of Missouri Business Alert's ongoing coverage of critical minerals in the state. People dressed as prospectors and cowboys cheered from the top of floats depicting life in the old West as ...

Missouri mining companies and scientists are working to strengthen domestic supply chains of critical minerals like cobalt, gallium and germanium by tapping into industrial waste and re-mining ...

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 ...

All the critical minerals the U.S. needs annually for energy, defense and technology applications are already being mined at existing U.S. facilities, according to a new analysis published in the ...

Silt has filled the retention ponds at the Pea Ridge Mine, south of Sullivan, seen on Oct. 28, 2010. St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographers captured May 2024 in hundreds of images. Here are just some ...

Mining experts discussed the importance of domestic mineral mining for U.S. sustainability and security at a journalism conference in Arizona. Panelists emphasized the need for "social license," which ...

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources. But ...

In 2016, the Industrial Minerals Association North America estimated that the average American will use 24 tons of industrial minerals over the course of a year—and that number has presumably only ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode — vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...