TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year

Buick Mine/Mill

Total reported releases 9.2M lb held roughly steady year over year (-1%). Total releases concentrations have fallen 42% since 2010.

270 FOREST ROAD 2231, Boss, Missouri · 212230 · Metal Mining · operated by The Renco Group INC

TOTAL RELEASES · 20102024
Bar chart of annual values from 2010 to 2024, in lb. Most recent year (2024): 9.2M.16.5M'10'12'14'16'18'20'22'249.2M
Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

LONG-ARC IMPROVEMENT · LONG-ARC SHIFT

Lead And Lead Compounds

Lead And Lead Compounds at Buick Mine/Mill have more than halved since 2010 (through 2024).

Chemicals reported · most recent year

What This Facility Releases

PBTCAS N420

Lead And Lead Compounds

4.0M lb · -3% YoY

Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.

GENERALCAS N982

Zinc compounds

3.3M lb · +44% YoY

Zinc compounds concentrations have fallen 33% since 2010.

GENERALCAS N100

Copper And Copper Compounds

1.9M lb · -32% YoY

Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations have fallen 19% since 2010.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Next To This Facility

Iron County County, MO (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 9,538. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
19.5%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
7.7%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
6.2%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
22.0%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.

Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.

What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.