Missouri Critical Minerals

Project Summary Missouri has produced or has permissive geology for multiple critical elements, including REEs, Co, barite, Ga, Ge, In, Mn, Ti, Re, Bi, Sn, and W. The former Pea Ridge mine is a principal U.S. REE deposit (Long et al., 2010), while southeast Missouri formerly produced Co. The state is also home to the world-class Washington County Barite District, and had barite production from the Central Missouri Barite-Lead District. Minor production of tungsten occurred in small deposits in southeast Missouri, and Ga and Ge had minor production in the Tri-State Zn-Pb District. The Southeast Missouri Lead District produced Co from the Mine La Motte-Fredericktown subdistrict, and has know cobalt in currently operation and closed mines [...]