Boundary Waters protection bill reintroduced as advocates, …
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill on Jan. 21 to ban sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters while advocacy groups and University of Minnesota …
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Sulfide Mining
Sulfide-Ore Copper Mining and the Risks. Fish & Their Prey Directly at Risk ... Minnesota Trout Unlimited. P.O. Box 845. Chanhassen, MN 55317. Make a Donation to MNTU. Facebook Posts. This message is only visible to admins. Problem displaying Facebook posts. Backup cache in use.
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Long-delayed Minnesota copper-nickel mining project wins …
The proposed NewRange Copper Nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota suffered a fresh setback Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, when an administrative law judge recommended that state regulators should not reissue a crucial permit for the long-delayed project. ... "Copper-sulfide mining is the most polluting industry in the country and simply cannot be ...
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Sulfide Mining & Voyageurs National Park
With two copper-nickel sulfide mining projects in progress in northeastern Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park Association stands opposed to proposed sulfide-ore copper mining. This type of mining has unacceptable health and environmental risks in such a water-rich area and poses a serious threat to our waters and to the ecosystems of the Rainy ...
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Defending the Boundary Waters from sulfide mine pollution
Low prices for copper and other metals cooled interest in the deposit, and it lay fallow for years. But these leases remained, and eventually sprang to life as Twin Metals Minnesota. In 2010, Canadian junior mining company Duluth Metals announced a joint venture with Chilean mining giant Antofagasta.
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Copper-Nickel Sulfide Mining in Minnesota
What watershed have the potential to be impacted by pollution from Copper-Nickle Sulfide mining? This map shows where the various mines have mineral leases and the watersheds they are in. Watch the videos linked …
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Copper-Nickel Studies and Non-ferrous Mining
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in copper-nickel mining in Northern Minnesota, particularly by the PolyMet Mining Corporation (PolyMet) and Twin Metals Minnesota (Twin Metals). ... Mechanism and Control of Metal Sulfide in Gabbro Mining-Related Solids. Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, 1977. (CN-043)
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Choose this over sulfide mining: renewables, jobs and …
There is nothing magical about locating a sulfide mine in Minnesota that would prevent toxic pollution; if anything, it's far riskier here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Nor would mining here ...
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Here's what you need to know about recent …
Day by day, here's a synopsis of how recent developments fit into the larger picture of the fight against sulfide mining in northeastern Minnesota: From cancelled mineral leases to grooving on from PolyMet on the Capitol lawn, the …
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Should we mine copper and nickel in Minnesota
It's an argument that has become popular among supporters of the Twin Metals and PolyMet projects. Yet the clean energy case for copper-nickel mining hasn't exactly won over skeptics in Minnesota.
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Sulfide Mining Regulation in the Great Lakes Region: A
Minnesota has never permitted a sulfide mine to operate, but is currently reviewing the application of Polymet's NorthMet project, which has incurred a great deal of public criticism. Also, there is significant exploratory activity underway, particularly in the northeast corner of the
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Sulfide Mining | Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
PolyMet would be the first ever sulfide mine in Minnesota, and allowing it would cause irreversible damage. MCEA is absolutely essential in the fight to protect our communities.
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Sulfide mining: the most fateful decision Minnesota will ever …
Sulfide mining would destroy thousands of acres of habitat for loons in northeastern Minnesota, pollute lakes and streams, and create toxic pit waters, decimating loon populations throughout ...
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Sulfide copper and nickel mining should never be …
Even new sulfide mining and processing technology and practices like lime neutralization, cementation, double lined (ponds, tailings basins, and waste dumps), and topographic isolation of tailings ...
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Stauber proposes 'Boundary Waters Restoration Act' that …
Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Duluth) on Wednesday re-introduced a bill that would erase mining protections for a large area of Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters …
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Minnesota DNR suspends review of PolyMet mine project
The proposed copper-nickel sulfide mine aims to produce metals used in industrial applications. ... In 2023, Minnesota's highest court ruled against both the mining company and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency regarding a permit the agency issued in 2018. In the process, the court commented that the MPCA did not take a thorough look at ...
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With copper-nickel mining uncertainty, how long will mining …
[image_credit]Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society[/image_credit][image_caption]Gold mining in Minnesota in 1871.[/image_caption] "Around the time of World War II, there was a real ...
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Here's what you need to know about recent …
From cancelled mineral leases to grooving on from PolyMet on the Capitol lawn, the last week of January 2022 was a blitz of mining news. Day by day, here's a synopsis of how recent developments fit into the larger picture of the fight …
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Risks to Human Health from Sulfide-Ore Copper Mining
Sulfide-ore Mining and Human Health in Minnesota - March 2022. Public Health and Economic Consequences of Methyl Mercury Toxicity to the Developing Brain. Sulfide Mining and Human Health in Minnesota - November 2016. Risks and costs to human health of sulfide-ore mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
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Promises made, promises broken when it comes to Glencore and sulfide
In August of 2019, Walker Orenstein of MinnPost conducted a thorough interview on sulfide mining in northern Minnesota with our relatively new governor, Gov. Tim Walz. The governor, to his credit ...
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Minnesota grapples with nickel mining impacts …
This sulfide mining has a toxic legacy across the world, including mines owned by Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian company and joint venture partner here with Talon Metals. ... The Minnesota mine ...
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Sulfide Mining and Human Health in Minnesota
Sulfide mining (specifically copper-nickel sulfide mining) represents a significant departure from Minnesota's iron mining tradition. Sulfide mining can produce acid waste and sulfates that mobilize the release of heavy metals into the environment. These metals include known neurotoxins such as lead …
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Potential Sulfide Mines
Minnesota's three primary watersheds – the Lake Superior, Rainy River (Boundary Waters) and Mississippi River Basins all face threats from sulfide mining. The PolyMet (Glencore) NorthMet copper-nickel mine. in the Lake …
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CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH Sulfide-ore mining AND …
sulfide-ore copper nickel (sulfide-ore) hardrock mining in Minnesota. Although the debate is not a new one, the landscape surrounding decisions regarding this type of mining within Minnesota's borders is dynamic and constantly changing. As 2021 was ushered in, so were new legisla-tive and legal efforts affecting sulfide-ore mining.
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Twin Metals Minnesota appeals sulfide mining leases in court
Sulfide-ore mining and human health in Minnesota – Minnesota Medicine Magazine Wilderness guide and outdoorswoman Pam Wright has been exploring wild places since her youth. Remaining curious, she has navigated remote lakes in Canada by canoe, backpacked some of the highest mountains in the Sierra Nevada, and completed a thru-hike of …
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Stop Sulfide Mining
Mission Minnesotans love Lake Superior, the Boundary Waters, North Shore, and all of Northern Minnesota—and we are deeply concerned about proposals to develop copper/nickel (also called sulfide ore) mining in the region including PolyMet and Twin Metals. Such mining poses a great threat to our Northern communities and environment: There is no safe mining of that type, as …
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Newly introduced bills would protect Minnesota from sulfide …
On Thursday, Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum unveiled her own legislation that would specifically keep sulfide mining out of Minnesota in the watershed of the …
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The Myth of Sulfide Mining Without Contamination
A new report, "The Minnesota Prove It First Bill and the Myth of Sulfide Ore Mining without Environmental Contamination" by mining engineer Steve Emerman, supports what River Alliance of Wisconsin and our partners have said for years. There isn't a …
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The Supreme Court's PolyMet Water Permit …
Despite the company's assurances to the contrary, the Minnesota Supreme Court has affirmed what we've known from the start: PolyMet's proposed sulfide mine would pollute clean water. In its recent August 2, 2023 …
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Copper demand softens, adding further …
One of the main arguments in favor of copper-sulfide mining in northern Minnesota is that those metals will have a major role to play in the ongoing transition toward cleaner, greener energy sources. "The world is …
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