Responsible Minnesota Mining Resource Listing

Want to learn more about mining and cut through the usual misinformation floating around out there at the environmental activist sites?

 Here is a starting place of resources to begin with.

We Support Minnesota Mining Resource Listing

We Support Minnesota Mining Resource Listing:

Polymet's Northmet Project:

NorthMet Mining Project and Land Exchange Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement November 2013
http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/input/environmentalreview/polymet/sdeis/full_sdeis.pdf

NorthMet Supplemental Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS)
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/input/environmentalreview/polymet/index.html 

ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE MINING with examples of environmentally responsible mines.

http://technology.infomine.com/enviromine/publicat/enviroresponse.html

http://www.pumpkinhollowcopper.com/project-overview/right-way/

http://www.flambeaumine.com/documents/news_releases/JUDGE%20FINDING%20News%20Release%20July%2025%202012.pdf

Reverse Osmosis / Water Quality:

Acid Rock Drainage
http://www.miningminnesota.com/WHATABOUTACIDROCKDRAINAGE.pdf

These reports relate to methyl mercury and sulfate cycling in NE Minnesota streams and in the St. Louis River estuary.
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lands.../dnr_so4_research.html

http://www.rwlwater.com/what-is-reverse-osmosis/http://www.miningfacts.org/Environment/How-are-the-effects-of-mining-on-water-quality-monitored-/

http://www.wqa.org/sitelogic.cfm?ID=872

Case Study: On-Site Water Treatment Plant for Collahuasi Copper Mine in Chile
http://www.rwlwater.com/case-study-collahuasi-copper-mine/

Case Study: Dunka Mine Minnesota (Lessons Learned)
http://www.itrcweb.org/miningwaste-guidance/cs_dunka_mine.htm

Sulfate: Copper Education - Minnesota And Flambeau Comparisons, Ore Sulfide Bodies

https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/copper-education-minnesota-and-flambeau-comparisons-ore-sulfide-bodies/326713324131328

Water Resource Documents Regarding Sulfate And Water Quality In Three Minnesota Cities

https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/water-resource-documents-regarding-sulfate-and-water-quality-in-three-minnesota-/306176939518300

Truth on sulfate and wild rice - Facts/ Regulatory Environment Piece.
http://www.virginiamn.com/opinion/letters/truth-on-sulfate-and-wild-rice/article_de9ebad2-c549-11e4-8770-f7901cc34427.html

Some Current Minnesota Mining Projects:

http://www.polymetmining.com/development-environ-mining.php

http://www.twin-metals.com/

Copper Nickel Discussions

Copper and Nickel Mining in Minnesota (UMD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQELZoL2yUo

Mining History:

http://miningartifacts.homestead.com/indexminnesotamininghistory.html

http://www.miningartifacts.org/Minnesota-MInes.html

Some vanished settlements of the Arrowhead country / Julius F. Wolff, Jr.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/34/v34i05p177-184.pdf 

17 Level (Pioneer Mine Operations)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taORtR8-5Ug&fb_source=message

Mining Tools And Resources:

Minnesota Minerals Coordinating Committee
http://mcc.mn.gov/index.html

Additional Information on Minerals and Mining in Minnesota
http://mcc.mn.gov/links.html

Laurentian Vision Partnership
http://www.lvpmn.org/tools-resources/

Range Readiness Initiative
http://www.rangereadiness.com/

State regulations and reclamation rules related to nonferrous metallic minerals exploration and development 
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lands_minerals/metallic_nf/regulations.html 


Where tax revenues go:

http://www.revenue.state.mn.us/businesses/mineral/Documents/2011_mining_guide.pdf

http://www.revenue.state.mn.us/businesses/mineral/Documents/2013_mining_guide.pdf 

Active Mines In Minnesota:

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/lands_minerals/mpes_projects/mn_mines_color_webversion_2011_12.pdf

Economic Impact:

The Economic Impact of Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Mining on the State of Minnesota and the Arrowhead Region, including Douglas County, Wisconsin

https://lsbe.d.umn.edu/uploads/FINAL%20Mining%202012%20Report.pdf 

Minnesota Department Of Employment And Economic Development
https://apps.deed.state.mn.us/lmi/oes/OccSelect.aspx

Informational Photos:

How mining taxes support your school. Source: Mining Tax Guide
https://www.facebook.com/wesupportmining/photos/a.154792911323371.33286.154031381399524/429570947178898/?type=1&theater

Could you raise a family on an average Tourism job?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=548631805228526&set=a.352036204888088.82079.349658158459226&type=1&theater

Would you conclude that Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Mining projects are important to Minnesota's future?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=373482472787746&set=pb.154031381399524.-2207520000.1387023870.&type=3&theater

Tax Impact Totals
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=370663393069654&set=pb.154031381399524.-2207520000.1387023870.&type=3&theater

A little reminder again just how important mining is to Northeast Minnesota.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=324028714399789&set=pb.154031381399524.-2207520000.1387024051.&type=3&theater

Mineral Uses:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=281155918687069&set=pb.154031381399524.-2207520000.1387024189.&type=3&theater

Duluth Complex and Flambeau Mine Site Sulfide Comparison.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=280755748727086&set=pb.154031381399524.-2207520000.1387024191.&type=3&theater

Flambeau Mine Monitored Discharges
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=280755408727120&set=pb.154031381399524.-2207520000.1387024191.&type=3&theater

Support Minnesota Mining! - MN GOP Photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152029261689331&set=a.121525754330.100852.16519899330&type=1&theater

Mineral Resources:

Mineral Resources of Minnesota: Past, Present,and Future
http://www.d.umn.edu/~mille066/Outreach/MN%20Min%20Resources.MESTA11.pdf 

Financial Assurance:

Minnesota Financial Assurance Requirements for Non-ferrous Mining

https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/minnesota-financial-assurance-requirements-for-non-ferrous-mining/297061617096499 

Useful Reading:

According to this report, only 10% of 47,000 abandoned mines on BLM and USFS lands have contaminated the nearby waters. http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/MINERALS__REALTY__AND_RESOURCE_PROTECTION_/aml.Par.86533.File.dat/Final%20AML%20Report.pdf 

Clean water and the PolyMet copper-nickel project
https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/clean-water-and-the-polymet-copper-nickel-project/362897807179546

Why Minnesota Should Say Yes to Copper - Nickel Mineral Development!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/why-minnesota-should-say-yes-to-copper-nickel-mineral-development/347564625379531

Polymet's Permit To Mine Requirements
https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/polymets-permit-to-mine-requirements/329764080492919

The Next Generation of Mining: Protecting Our Environment. Creating Jobs. Demonstrating Global Leadership
https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/the-next-generation-of-mining-protecting-our-environment-creating-jobs-demonstra/297067923762535

What you should know already about precious metals mining!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-support-minnesota-mining/what-you-should-know-already-about-precious-metals-mining/297065813762746

Education:
Copper Development Association Inc.
http://www.copper.org/education/

Digging Into the Promise of Copper
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteer/julaug12/nonferrous.html

Minerals Education Association:
http://www.mineralseducationcoalition.org/

Drilling:

Bedrock core drilling: Mineral exploration in Minnesota
http://www.ideadrilling.com/pdf/Idea_Booklet_01GWithLinks.pdf

Resolutions Supporting Strategic Metals Mining

http://jobsforminnesotans.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Supportive-Mining-Resolutions-newest-to-oldest.pdf 

Ecoterrorism:

http://www.akdart.com/enviro5.html

GRAPHIC: Eco-Protesters in Wisconsin Assault Mine Workers
http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2013/07/11/graphic-eco-protesters-in-wisconsin-assault-mine-workers

Environmentalism:

Activist Facts: Research on the people and agendas behind the groups.
https://www.activistfacts.com/

Lord Christopher Monckton ends the Global Warming Debate and proves its a Hoax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5SitwF0SFg#t=3422

Professor Bob Carter torpedoes the "scientific consensus" on the climate HOAX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpfMM3bVbhQ

http://www.green-agenda.com/globalrevolution.html 

http://markhumphrys.com/environmentalism.html 

Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030:

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld

Agenda 2030 Translator: How to Read the UN’s New Sustainable Development Goals
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09/agenda-2030-translator.html

Obama, Pope Francis, COP21, ICLEI, UN Agenda 21 AND 2030, And Global Meetings Sept 2015
https://randrewohge.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/obama-pope-francis-cop21-iclei-un-agenda-21-and-2030-and-global-meetings-sept-2015/ 

Taking Liberty: Region by Region
http://www.takingliberty.us/TLByRegion.html

Minnesota Green Step Cities
http://greenstep.pca.state.mn.us/

Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson
http://americanpolicy.org/agenda21/

Keep Minnesota Free
http://keepmnfree.com/agenda21.html

Rosa Koire Speech about Agenda 21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-qLUQlmBk4

NextStep - Agenda 21 in Minnesota
http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/res_detail.cfm?id=1059

Agenda 21
http://agendatwentyone.wordpress.com/

Democrats Against Agenda 21
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/

Freedom Advocates
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/

MorphCity
http://www.morphcity.com/

Stop Agenda 21 and Stop ICLEI in Minnesota
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Agenda-21-and-Stop-ICLEI-in-Minnesota/131897980296187

http://www.globalistagenda.org/

http://green-agenda.com/

America 2050
http://www.america2050.org/

Senile Dianne Feinstein’s Surreptitious Desert Wilderness Protection Act To Block Gold Mining: Agenda 21 Shutting Down The United States Gold Mining, Biden’s Anti Coal, & Obama’s Anti Oil.

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2013/01/09/senile-dianne-feinsteins-surreptitious-desert-wilderness-protection-act-to-block-gold-mining-agenda-21-shutting-down-the-united-states-gold-mining-bidens-anti-coal-obamas-anti-oil/

Green Funding:

Russian Money and Useful American Idiots: The Same Old Story
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/russian_money_and_useful_american_idiots_the_same_old_story.html

Social Capitalists: Wall Street's Progressive Partners
https://intercontinentalcry.org/social-capitalists-wall-streets-progressive-partners/

Green Decoys
https://www.greendecoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/green-decoys-report.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEKMu7ooJFs


Voting Records Regarding Environmental Issues:

League Of Conservation Voters:
http://scorecard.lcv.org/scorecard?year=2013 


Minerals Sourcing:

Special Report on Consumer Electronics: The Human Toll Behind the Minerals

http://www.reprisk.com/marketing/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/131218-RepRisk-Special-Report_Consumer-Electronics.pdf

Polls:

QUESTION: Do you think Minnesota should approve or reject the application from PolyMet for a new copper and nickel mine on the Iron Range?

http://www.startribune.com/politics/245848511.html

New Survey Shows Support for the Future of Minnesota’s Mining Industry
http://jobsforminnesotans.org/new-survey-shows-support-for-the-future-of-minnesotas-mining-industry/

Videos On Mining:

Ely's Jay Mackie speaks on Ely and mining.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5n6RY9gzPA

Ely's Bill Erzar speaks on impact of mining on schools.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuq_USSkkATom

Rukavina support for ferrous and non ferrous mining.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1J32JO27qY

Rep. Rick Nolan backtracks on support for PolyMet permitting bill
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/09/1261434/-Rep-Rick-Nolan-backtracks-on-support-for-PolyMet-permitting-bill#


Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/wesupportmining
https://www.facebook.com/GoPolyMet
https://www.facebook.com/Jobs4MN
https://www.facebook.com/UpNorthJobs?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser
https://www.facebook.com/TwinMetalsMN?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser
https://www.facebook.com/ElyLocals2012?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser https://www.facebook.com/pages/Standing-Strong-for-Progress-in-Minnesota/349658158459226 

More Information, Links and Current News Here:

https://www.facebook.com/wesupportmining

Copper Education - Minnesota And Flambeau Comparisons, Ore Sulfide Bodies

Copper Education - Minnesota And Flambeau Comparisons, Ore Sulfide Bodies

What is Copper?

Native copper is an element and a mineral. It is found in the oxidized zones of copper deposits; in hydrothermal veins; in the cavities of basalt that has been in contact with hydrothermal solutions; and as pore fillings and replacements in conglomerates that have been in contact with hydrothermal solutions. It is rarely found in large quantities, thus it is seldom the primary target of a mining operation. Most copper produced is extracted from sulfide deposits.

http://geology.com/minerals/copper.shtml

An Overview of Cu-Ni Deposits inMinnesota: A Geological Perspective
Jim Miller
Department of Geological Sciences
Precambrian Research Center
University of Minnesota Duluth

http://www.lvpmn.org/_site_components/documents/user/DC%20Min_LVPmtg_5-13-13.pdf

Observed Results From The Flambeau Copper Mine - It has been done before safely.

Results show consistent sulfate levels below Wild Rice Standard In Minnesota

Sulfur Levels Much Lower In Minnesota Ores.

Source:
Copper and Nickel Mining in Minnesota
University Of Minnesota - Duluth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQELZoL2yUo

Flambeau Reclaimed: A Success Story

http://www.flambeaumine.com/

http://blogs.wisconsinoutdoorfun.com/blogs/wof/wofnashblog/2012/09/21/reclaimed-flambeau-mine-nature-trails/

Mining And Environmental Groups Need To Partner - Nancy McReady

Our communities around the Boundary Waters are dying, or at best hanging on with life support. As proof, look at the empty storefronts, decreased school enrollments, decaying buildings and infrastructure due to a low tax base. We need good paying jobs and young families on the Iron Range.

Wouldn’t it be great if so-called environmental groups worked with mining companies to bring good paying jobs to the Iron Range rather than working against them?

Out in Montana, three local environmental groups have signed an agreement to work out their differences in the open and also apply strict environmental practices to the mining operation in North Stillwater. They have recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Stillwater Good Neighbor Agreement that keeps disputes out of the courts while protecting Montana’s watersheds.

There is a similar alliance in Pennsylvania between gas and oil companies working together with national and regional environmental groups to create tough new standards for fracking. 
 
This agreement has been criticized by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups. Yet the Sierra Club and other environmental groups have no problem partnering with labor unions with the BlueGreen Alliance. 
 
In Minnesota, the BlueGreen Alliance is working to expand solar capacity and retrofit public schools, libraries and state-owned buildings, all with a goal of improving the state's competitiveness and creating good Minnesota jobs. But what are they doing to help taconite plants or to move the precious metal mining forward? Nothing!
 
No one denies tourism is good for Minnesota, and the Boundary Waters is a big reason why. But, tourism isn't enough to provide good paying jobs to support a family.
 
Mining is very important to northeastern Minnesota, too. Environmental groups would be wise to work with the mining companies to assure all mining is done safely and protects the Boundary Waters rather than constantly delaying mining project by going to the courts. With new technology, we can mine responsibly and protect our environment.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports

Try number two on the Presidential tracking poll, thanks for the feedback.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Minnesota Politics And 8th District Bicycle Riding, Anderson and Cravaack Lead The Way.

It turned out to be a very nice day today, Aug. 4, 2012. Our family took the trip over to Hibbing to participate in the Great River Energy Mesabi Trail bicycle tour from Hibbing to Virginia. This is not particularly consequential but along the way I did an informal survey of the number of political  and other signs along the route. Many thanks to the volunteers of the Mesabi Trail ride by the way. A very nice job done by everyone and it is very much appreciated!

The number one sign in the 8th district race on this route was Jeff Anderson. Following was Congressman Chip Cravaack. Third was Rick Nolan with a sign on the east end of the range and a few scattered around the Hibbing - Chisholm area. What should really worry Tarryl Clark supporters was that I didn't see a single (not one) sign of hers the whole stretch from Babbitt-Embarrass to Hibbing. At least the TV stations are making some money from her campaign.

It also seems that folks over there support mining as well. I did see a fair number of the "We Support Mining" signs.

The last thing that was interesting besides the beautiful views on the bike ride was the amount of construction happening. Along the trail was what looked to be a Magnetation operation with recycling and reclaiming of old tailings piles for the iron within to say nothing of the jobs generated.

By Mountain Iron, you can see Minntac in operation and the wind generators in operation along the side. These generators use iron and the precious metals involved in upcoming mining projects on the range.
Menard's has recently opened in Virginia supported by the mining dollars the industry provides. There was a lot of traffic in Virginia today.

Another  large building is going up near Virginia. I believe this is the new P&H (Joy Global) facility which assists the mining industry throughout our area and is a worldwide company.

You  can see the signs of change and prosperity all around us if you look close enough. Let's keep the ball rolling in the right direction this election season and elect pro mining candidates. Congressman Cravaack and candidate Jeff Anderson come to mind as the best options for jobs. I'd hate to have to watch this die on the vine with incorrect policy in the future.