"Protecting this national treasure from risky sulfide ore copper mining is vital to the local communities and regional ...

The Tamarack Nickel Project, near the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe reservation, is nearing a key regulatory step.

Congress is weighing another step that could revive the disputed Twin Metals mine project near the Boundary Waters after a ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump‘s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators have concluded that state rules governing where copper-nickel mines can be built are insufficient to protect the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

The Trump administration said it is taking initial steps to reverse a Biden-era 20-year moratorium on mining on federal land within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The ...

The head of a Chilean mining company that wants to open a copper-nickel mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness says a new import tax on copper could help the project.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...

The real leaders on copper-nickel mining in northern Minnesota are not politicians or industry reps or environmental advocates. The real leaders are ordinary people like Colin Yahnke, the chief ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The developers of a ...