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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Missouri regulators handed a setback to a ...

A bill currently being negotiated in the Illinois House of Representatives would regulate large-scale hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- in the state, and the Missouri mining industry stands to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri ...

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 ...

The Missouri Mining Commission has revoked a mining permit for a Silica sand mine in Ste. Genevieve County following months of opposition from residents. In a 4-1 vote, the commission ruled Thursday ...

MISSOURI, USA — Five mines operating underneath Mark Twain National Forest in southeast Missouri can continue operating for the next 10 years after approval from the federal government. The Bureau of ...

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 ...