Posted on 12/04/2012 2:23:58 PM PST by DManA
According to the new estimate, the site contains "indicated resources" of 13.7 billion pounds of copper, 4.4 billion pounds of nickel and 21.2 million ounces of palladium, platinum and gold. The company has high confidence in those estimates because they're based on samples from a high number of drill sites. It separately projects "inferred resources" of 11.8 billion pounds of copper, 4 billion pounds of nickel and 12.8 million ounces of precious metals, but those estimates are less certain because they're based on fewer samples.
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Mrs Wasp and I are planning a trip to the boundary area early this coming summer. My mom and dad used to canoe all over that place when they were alive.
The EnvironMentalist will become so occupied protecting this place that they may drop their guard on a bunch of other places. Nah, I'm prolly dreamin in California... Phht!
Ambulance chasers, “wifebeater” chasers and endangered species wildlife conservation chasers... lawyers make their money that way. They will tax to their benefits everything they want. The government will approve the churches that finances its coffers.
These taxes are probably illegal to begin with because most of that stuff gets exported. The Founding Fathers knew export/income taxes would breed treachery and the downfall of the country.
Mines Management has a similar one in Montana. It was initially claimed and drilled by one Co, and then subsequently got Wilderness status. MM sank a shaft into it from 2.5 miles away IIRC...
China will pay a lot of (our) money for those mines...
Interesting tidbit: More than a third of the players from the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team were from northern Minnesota, including Bill Baker, Neal Broten, Dave Christian, John Harrington, Mark Pavelich, Buzz Schneider and Phil Verchota. That's probably one reason why the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Eveleth, an old mining town in the Iron Range.
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