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 ...

Millions of Missouri taxpayer dollars could be going to a consortium aiming to get $40 to $70 million in federal funds to bolster mining of critical minerals in the state. Republican Missouri Gov.

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 ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the environmental front, for example, there’s the destruction of Indonesian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mining stocks are particularly risky due to the very high cost and long process of developing and expanding mines. Buying an ...

Whereas, critical minerals and rare earths are essential for the production of advanced technologies; Whereas, the United States of America (the “United ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and other ...