“It almost needs to be melted in the ground and pumped out.”
It still comes down to hard rock mining, and the UP has some of the best. But the people who worked at Calumet & Hecla when it shut down in 1968 are getting old now, but they have knowledge they can pass onto young people.
I would love to see hard-rock copper mining back on the Keweenaw.
People think I’m nutty when I say that the time is right for a conservative migration to Michigan but we’ve started to tip the scales and need a conservative influx to keep the momentum.
While the rest of the country runs to the south, there is enormous untapped wealth in Michigan. We only need the political will to go after it.
It doesn’t promise to be easy but good things seldom are.