Antimony (Sb) is a hard, brittle, silver-white metal with a relatively high specific gravity (6.69) and a rela...

Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...

Aquaculture—the farming of aquatic plants and animals—includes private sector, commercial fish farms, stat...

Arkansas leads the nation in the farming of bait and feeder fish, providing sixty-one percent of the value of ...

When Arkansas was admitted to statehood in June 1836, the first and second acts of the legislature that year a...

Bauxite is the principal ore of aluminum and is a mixture of aluminum oxides and hydroxides that formed from i...

Beer brewing in Arkansas dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. Documentation on early beer brewing in Arka...

Brickmaking in Arkansas began in the early nineteenth century as a much localized industry in which a builder ...

Bromine (chemical symbol Br) is a highly corrosive, reddish-brown, volatile element found in liquid form. Brom...

America’s mother-of-pearl button industry boomed in the late 1800s due to a seemingly inexhaustible supply o...

The Chicken War of 1962–1963 was a trade dispute between poultry producers in Arkansas and other states and ...

Coal fields in Arkansas are located in the Arkansas River Valley between the western border of the state and R...

Cotton is a shrub known technically as gossypium. Although modest looking and usually no higher than a medium-...

Crushed stone is an angular form of construction aggregate, made by breaking quarried rock into fragments that...

Arkansas freshwater mussel shell provided the raw material for cultured pearl farming in the latter half of th...

Traditionally, milk has been a staple in the diet of Arkansans, especially the young. Throughout history, dair...

Almost 100 million years ago, in what is now Pike County, nature created one of the world’s most unusual dia...

Dimension stone is defined as rock that is removed from its original site to be used with minor alteration (ro...

Experimental forests are timbered lands that have been established primarily for scientific research and demon...

The natural gas field known as the Fayetteville Shale, development of which began in 2004, became recognized a...

Gypsum is a mineral (CaSO4·2H2O) that occurs in nature as both a mineral and, when in massive form, a rock. M...

Hydroelectric power is the electricity generated by the gravitational force of falling or flowing water throug...

Industrial sand is a term normally applied to high-purity silica sand products with closely controlled sizing....

The history of lead and zinc mining in Arkansas is linked because ores of these two metals often occur togethe...

The Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest (LWDF) is located about three miles south of Hamburg (Ashley County) al...

Arkansans supported the American effort in World War I in many ways. Some served in the armed forces, while ot...

The mining of manganese ore was a very important economic activity in Arkansas between 1849 and 1959. The regi...

Mining is defined as the extraction of valuable minerals or stone (mineral resources) from the earth, usually ...

The earliest natural gas find is reported to have been in Scott County in 1887 during an effort to develop a c...