Mining Jobs are Great Jobs
Mesabi Daily News
Opinion: Lory Fedo (Board Member, Jobs for Minnesotans)
Your conversations are important and all of us, together, need to unite and fight hard for the economic future of ourselves and our children. Whether we are mining iron ore, copper, palladium or nickel, mining is and will be a huge part of OUR future — that is worth fighting for.
As you are talking to others here are more FACTS to share:
- According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, today the average mining wage job is $83,359. Compare this number to the average annual wage for all industries in the US, which is $50,475.
- Every American depends on more than 100 pounds of minerals per day.
- Metals, both ferrous and non-ferrous, are essential for our modern way of life.
- Mining will happen — the questions are by who, where, how and meeting what standards?
The lengthy permitting process for new mines in Minnesota stonewalls investment and simply takes too long. It has cost more than $70 million and taken more than nine years to date for PolyMet’s environmental review. And it’s still not done. We can and need to do better.
DNR: PolyMet EIS Will be Completed by Spring
Duluth News Tribune
John Myers
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr on Monday said he expects the agency’s work on the PolyMet
It’s the most specific deadline so far in the ongoing regulatory saga over what would be Minnesota’s first copper mining and processing operation.
Landwehr made the comment at a gathering of Iron Range school and municipal officials with top officials of the Minnesota DNR, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board.
Read more: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/content/dnr-polymet-eis-will-be-completed-spring
MINE V: Coming Oct. 29
Mesabi Daily News
Bill Hanna
We are now into our second year of the MINE project, with MINE V to be published on Wednesday, Oct. 29. That will put us pretty much on a quarterly schedule for publication of the special editions that tell the fascinating story — past, present and in the future — of the mining industry that is so important to the Iron Range, state and nation.
he project, which is a collaboration of the Adams Publishing Group’s newspaper, online and video publications of the Mesabi Daily News, Hibbing Daily Tribune, Grand Rapids Herald-Review and Chisholm Tribune Press, focuses on the No. 1 economic driver of the region.
Mining has so greatly impacted all aspects of our personal lives and our communities for more than 100 years, and is poised for a bold future of many, many more years to come.
Mining Expo Draws Employers, Hopeful Employees
The third annual Iron Range Miners Expo provided a good opportunity for potential workers to meet companies that could become employers.
The Minnesota Discovery Center hosts the event, which had 80 different booths this year. Mining companies, equipment suppliers and engineering firms all had their best foot forward.
Read more: http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S3557591.shtml?cat=10363
Copper-Nickel Mining Could Move South of the Iron Range
MPR News
Dan Kraker
If Minnesota enjoys another mining boom, it may not be limited to the Iron Range.
Although towns like Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes are on the leading edge of the current wave of copper-nickel mine development, mining companies also are exploring much farther south, in an area without a rich mining history.
Such explorations have brought workers about an hour west of Duluth to a swampland just outside of Tamarack, population 94.
Read more: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/09/09/tamarack-mine