Bryan HanselGreat news! Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining
Photo from the Boundary Waters which was just protected from toxic sulfide mining.
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Jonathan Quist@bryanhansel
I recently inherited some land in that vicinity, part of the Grand Portage reservation. I get periodic statements from the Department of the Interior on funds credited my account due to the mineral rights for the parcels.
So far, every statement has said my balance is $0.
I am, quite frankly, very happy to learn that will continue to be the case.
@JonathanQuist I don't believe there are any deposits on the reservation, but I could be wrong. It's such good news after fighting this for years.
I honestly don't know anything about sulfide mining. When I was a kid that general region (compressing the whole of the Minnesota shoreline on Superior into "one place) was heavily invested in taconite mining for copper... So I tend to think of the whole region as "at risk".
All efforts to preserve this wilderness are greatly appreciated!
@JonathanQuist taconite mining is iron. Sulfide mines mines deposits that include tiny amounts of copper. When the waste gets exposed to water, it creates sulfuric acid and other toxic slurries.
The Lake Superior watershed is still threatened by the Glencore/PolyMet proposal. It's baffling that some people in MN want Glencore operating here. I'd love to see a list of ppl Glencore bribed to see if any MN politicians are on that list.
There's also a proposal in the Mississippi River watershed.
Okay, now I'm confusing taconite with a minor encounter in Copper Harbor 50+ years ago. 🙄🤔
We happened to drive under an ore train near there one night in a pouring rainstorm. I remember the car covered with rust streaks the next morning.
And I just looked at your profile, and was surprised to see the town of my grandmother's birth. Many childhood lunches of smoked chub along the harbor, enroute to or from Fort William.
@JonathanQuist it's a small world!