Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the ...

Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

From the column: "Mining sulfide-ore upstream of the BWCAW is 'a direct attack on our way of life in northern Minnesota'." ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed ...

Northern Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the ...

In his statement, Stauber says his bill would reinstate mineral leases in the area, describing that Biden's decision to ...

The bill would also return two key federal mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota, the company vying to build an underground mine for copper and nickel near Ely In this file photo from 2010 ...

They're good wages. The health insurance is amazing. And it's hard not to be excited about that," said Julie Lucas with Mining Minnesota. In an interview with WCCO in December, GOP Rep.

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"What President Trump is doing with his mantra of 'drill baby drill' is saying that 'we don't care about the land, air,' and for Minnesota, the water that would be polluted by these mines," Knopf ...