Twin Metals formally announced Thursday that it has instructed its
engineering contractor to draw up plans for an 80,000-ton-per-day mine
and processing plant -- an operation that would be one of the largest
private enterprises in state history.
It would be the largest underground mine in Minnesota history,
digging the largest untapped copper deposit in the world, and it’s
edging closer to reality in the woods southeast of Ely.
Twin
Metals is in the field this spring collecting baseline environmental
data across 32,000 acres the company has secured access to under which
geologists say is a jackpot discovery of copper.
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