Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the ...

From the column: "Trump … recognizes … the United States has vast mineral resources, including in Minnesota, and that we can and should be producing far more of the minerals we need.” ...

From the column: "Mining sulfide-ore upstream of the BWCAW is 'a direct attack on our way of life in northern Minnesota'." ...

Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

ELY, MINNESOTA — If mines are developed in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, an environmental ...

The state of Minnesota owns the mineral rights of much of this region, and has leased many more than 100,000 acres of state mineral rights for exploration. Any new heavy-metals mines in northeastern ...

Advocates against mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters were hit with another setback Tuesday when a Washington, D.C., judge ruled that the Department of the Interior’s return of mineral leases to ...

The Department of Natural Resources plans to hold a sale of state-owned metallic mineral leases for sites in northern Minnesota in fall 2015. The DNR invites public input on the areas under ...

A Minnesota Congressman has reintroduced a bill that would restore mineral permits and leases in parts of the Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a move opposed by ...

The bill would also return two key federal mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota, the company vying to build an underground mine for copper and nickel near Ely In this file photo from 2010, a worker ...

In January of 2023, the Biden Administration issued a 20-year moratorium on new mineral leases in the Superior ... that," said Julie Lucas with Mining Minnesota. In an interview with WCCO in ...