465The Mineral Industry of Missouri 
 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement between the
Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Division of Geological
Survey and Water Resources of Missouri, for collecting information on all
minerals except fuels. 
 
 
By Joseph C. Arundale 1 and James A. Martin' 
 
 
 Mineral production in Missouri continued upward; total value of mineral
output in 1967 reached a record high of about $237 million. 
 Principal mineral commodities, accounting for 82 percent of total mineral
value, were stone, cement, lead, iron ore, and lime. 
 Missouri ranked 24th among the States in mineral output and accounted for
about 1 percent of total U.S. mineral value. Production from the new lead
and iron mining and processing operations under development should raise
the State's ranking in future years. 
 Continued progress highlighted the 
State's mineral activities in 1967, despite engineering, supply, and labor
problems in constructing the mine-mill-smelter complex and in developing
the new mining district in southeast Missouri. Planned facilities, with a
capacity for producing about 350,000 tons of lead metal per ~ear, were scheduled
for completion by mid1968. The district has one of the world's largest reserves
of lead. 
 The Ozarks region in Missouri has been an area of persistent "underdevelopment."

 
 1 Physical scientist, Bureau of Mines, Bartlesyule, Okia. 
 2 Chief, Economic Geology Section, Missouri Division of Geological Survey
and Water Resources, Rolla, Mo. 
 
Table 1.—Mineral production in Missouri 1 
Mineral 
19 
Quantity 
66 
———— Value 
(thousands) 
1967 
 
Quantity Value (thousands) 
 
Barite short tons~ 
337,076 
$4,280 
331,780 
$4,444 
Cement: 
 
 
 
 
Portland thousand 376-pound barrels Masonry           thousand 280-pound
barrels - 
Clays thousand short tons~Coal (bituminous) do~ 
Copper (recoverable content of ores, etc.)    short tons - 
Iron ore (usable) thousand long tons-gross weighL - 
Lead (recoverable content of ores, etc.)     short tons - 
Lime thousand short tons.Natural gas million cubic feetPetroleum (crude)
thousand 42-gallon barrels -Sandandgravel thousandshorttons~Stone do 
 13,848 
382 
2,329 
3,582 
3,913 
1,887 
 132,255 
1,494 
  
97 
10,702 
 35,240 
46,228 
1,075 
5,989 
14,834 
2,831 
26,450 
39,981 
17,910 
 
 W 
13,540 
53,393 
15,044 
 372 
2,305 
3,696 
3,215 
1,871 
152,649 
1,434 
 121 
 75 
9,716 
36,585 
52,119 
1,172 
6,220 
15,573 
2,458 
26,673 
42,742 
16,371 
 30 
 W 
12,556 
53,953 
Zinc (recoverable content of ores, etc.) short tons - 
Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Native asphalt and values indicated
by symbol W                
 
Total                                 
Total 1957—59 constant dollars                
3,968 
 
XX 
1,151 
 
288 
7,430 
 
XX 
2,057 
 
291 
 
XX 
XX 
227,950 
212,459 
XX 
XX 
236,659 
o218,152 
 Preliminary. XX Not applicable. 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
in "Value of items that cannot be disclosed." 
 1 Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption bY producers).