Yup. Lots of titanium ore up on the Iron Range in MN. But Fed and state rats won’t let them mine it.
Yup. Lots of titanium ore up on the Iron Range in MN. But Fed and state rats won’t let them mine it.
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An example of rats not allowing mining in extremis:
A few years back when Walker was governor of Wisconsin, there was a proposal to mine iron ore in upper Wisconsin where jobs are few and well-paying jobs are unicorns.
The process would have entailed scooping up the ore which is in surface sand deposits, and via conveyor belt, passed under magnets removing the ore, and the sand, minus the ore, returned to the mine. Jobs, as I recall would have started over $50K year.
Nope, too environmentally unfriendly for the politicians in the legislature. Then ‘protestors’ came on the proposed site and destroyed the survey equipment. They were never caught or punished and the proposal was withdrawn. Upper Wisconsin hopes dashed, returned to semi-poverty.