EPA EPA EPA! by MinnesotaBrown on Feb 23, 2010 in mining PolyMet jobs environment iron range economy The Canadian mineral company Polymet's proposed copper-nickel mine on the Iron Range hit turbulence this week with a ding to its draft environmental impact statement from the federal Environmental Protection Agency."Inadequate" was the word used to d...
Act Now to Prevent Sulfide Mining From Harming Northeast Minnesota by Boundary Waters Blogger on Jan 26, 2010 in Sulfide Mining Polymet Ely Friends of the Boundary Waters Mining Precious Waters: Minnesota's Sulfide Mining Controversy from Precious Waters on Vimeo.The Ely area has a long history of iron mining. It is a prized part of our past. Beginning in the late 1800's, immigrants arrived from afar in search of a better li...
Junk Scientists call on regulators to halt mountaintop removal mines in Appalachia by Lake Minnetonka Liberty on Jan 7, 2010 in Eco-Kook Alert Coal Mining The Eco-Marxists are preparing to strike. A group of 12 junk scientists are making false claims again, just like they did and do with the imaginary climate change, except this time it could affect thousands of jobs and a huge part of our nations ener...
KeeTac to resume production soon by MinnesotaBrown on Dec 2, 2009 in mining Keewatin Taconite jobs iron range economy The word is that Keewatin Taconite workers are being called back at the start of 2010. We had a false start on a KeeTac production restart a couple months ago, but this one looks like it could hold. I've heard from a connected source who says the com...
Mesabi Nugget slated to go in mid-December by MinnesotaBrown on Nov 17, 2009 in mining jobs iron range Mesabi Nugget economy In other news, Mesabi Nugget plans to begin shipping its unique iron nugget product by mid-December. This reflects another slight delay but is small enough where we might be able to consider this a likelihood.
WDIO: KeeTac restart delayed by MinnesotaBrown on Oct 19, 2009 in mining minnesota steel Keewatin Taconite jobs keewatin iron range economy WDIO is reporting about a potential setback in the economic recovery on the Iron Range. Steelworkers suspect that the scheduled October restart of the idled U.S. Steel Keewatin Taconite plant will be postponed. It's not known how long the delay will...
Brown on the Air: RANGE NEWS 9/17/09 by MinnesotaBrown on Sep 15, 2009 in mining jobs iron range KAXE economy Though blogging has been slow lately (I have two big writing projects in the works) I have made some comments on recent good news in the Iron Range mining economy and will be sharing more of that analysis on the radio tomorrow. You can hear me on the...
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