The government will deploy low-flying airplanes to scan Missouri and Illinois for critical minerals as early as next week, a ...

Mineral-rich Missouri could be in a good spot amid concerns about over-reliance on China, the main supplier of minerals. Missouri Department of Natural Resources Director Kurt Schaefer told ...

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 ...

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 ...