A draft environmental assessment said that the mining is necessary because market conditions suggest a demand for quartz.

Central Arkansas Water and local conservation groups are raising the alarm over recent proposals to mine quartz in the ...

Arkansas’s largest public water utility came out this week against new quartz mines being proposed in the Ouachita National ...

Public input closes May 5 on a plan affecting 300+ acres, as past mining proposals near Lake Winona raised water and ...

As the Ouachita National Forest moves to open new quartz mining near Jessieville, conservationists are raising concerns about the proposal. On April 5, the U.S. Forest Service, which manages the Ozark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 300 acres of national forest land in Arkansas could soon become the site of quartz mining, and the public has until early May ...