Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds at Sweetwater Mine/Mill have risen 64% since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Sweetwater Mine/Mill
Total reported releases 5.2M lb held roughly steady year over year (-1%). Total releases concentrations are up 27% since 2010.
1382 SWEETWATER MINE ROAD, Ellington, Missouri · 212230 · Metal Mining · operated by The Renco Group INC
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Notable Signals
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds at Sweetwater Mine/Mill have more than halved since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations are up 64% since 2010.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations are up 17% since 2010.
Copper And Copper Compounds
Copper And Copper Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (1 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 731. Why we surface this →
41.4%
Low-income
5.5%
People of color
6.3%
Under age 5
26.3%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). 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.