SALINE COUNTY, Arkansas — Over 300 acres of national forest land in Arkansas could soon become the site of quartz mining, and the public has until early May to comment for or against. The U.S. Forest ...

Arkansas’s largest public water utility came out this week against new quartz mines being proposed in the Ouachita National Forest. As the Arkansas Times reported last week, one of the proposed mining ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Central Arkansas Water and local conservation groups are raising the alarm over recent proposals to mine quartz in the Ouachita National Forest after a Forest Service ...

United States Steel announced a $1.9 billion investment in a new direct reduced iron facility at Big River Steel Works in Osceola, Arkansas. The company says this will be the first facility of its ...

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