Northern Minnesota will look like Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in a brief period of time - desolate, empty buildings, homes and just towns going to rack and ruin. Great! /s
Maybe not. From what I’m hearing, the strongest long-term potential for northern Minnesota is in precious metals. It’s a far more complicated process because the ore veins are so deep under the surface, but there could be an enormous windfall under the ground up there in the north country.
And as the paper mills have been closing in Maine over the past few years, we are seeing the same thing: empty building,
for sale signs on homes, and so forth
In fact, they intend to discuss it in detail over a cocktail lunch at the next anti-mining, global warming conference (with due deference to Frank Drebin).