Prefeasibility Study Confirms Project Holds Major Job Creation
Mesabi Daily News
Opinion: Kelly Osborne (Twin Metals Minnesota CEO)
Over the past two years, Twin Metals Minnesota (TMM) has been conducting a Prefeasibility Study (PFS) for our proposed underground copper-nickel mining project in northeast Minnesota. In late August, Duluth Metals Limited, the majority partner in the TMM joint venture, released highlights from the PFS Technical Report, which confirms that the TMM Project offers an extraordinary job creation and economic development opportunity for the region and the entire state.
The TMM Project is among the world’s most promising copper-nickel mining developments due to the magnitude of Minnesota’s mineral resource and the project’s location in a region that has a strong mining history, world-class labor force, and extensive mining infrastructure, including existing roads, rail lines, ports, power and water supplies.
The competitive advantages Minnesota offers are key to the TMM Project’s projected long-term economic success.
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