Mining News Pro - A US judge has rejected a bid by a subsidiary of Chilean mining company Antofagasta Plc to restore canceled mineral leases for a proposed $1.7 billion Minnesota copper and nickel mine, which the Biden administration had blocked over concerns it could pollute a major recreational waterway.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 19:21:40

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Mining News Pro - Teck and PolyMet have launched the NewRange Copper Nickel joint venture with the aim to supply critical minerals for the clean energy transition across North America. Together, they plan to become the second nickel producer in the US.

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 22:30:15

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Mining News Pro - The US Interior Department on Thursday blocked mining in part of northeast Minnesota for 20 years, the latest blow to Antofagasta Plc’s Twin Metals copper and nickel mining project but a step officials said is needed to protect the state’s vast network of interconnected waterways.

Friday, January 27, 2023 - 11:25:43

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Mining News Pro - Antofagasta Plc’s Twin Metals subsidiary sued the US government on Monday in a bid to revive its proposed Minnesota copper and nickel mine, which Biden administration officials had blocked this year over concerns it could pollute a major recreational waterway.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 - 12:52:53

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Mining News Pro - PolyMet Mining Corp and Teck Resources Ltd said on Wednesday they will form a joint venture to develop their Minnesota copper and nickel mining projects.

Thursday, July 21, 2022 - 02:50:17

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Mining News Pro - PolyMet Mining Corp and Teck Resources Ltd said on Wednesday they will form a joint venture to develop their Minnesota copper and nickel mining projects.

Thursday, July 21, 2022 - 02:43:28

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Mining News Pro - The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $2.2 million in funding to a team led by Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO; NYSE: RIO) to investigate carbon storage potential at the Tamarack nickel project in Minnesota. The project is a joint venture of Rio Tinto (81.5%) and Talon Metals (TSX: TLO) (18.5%). The advanced exploration project is located about 85 km west of Duluth.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - 12:40:21

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Mining News Pro - In a recent lawsuit filed Tuesday, conservation groups sued the US Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS), the Forest Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers, claiming that their approval of the PolyMet open-pit copper mine and land exchange violates the Endangered Species Act.

Saturday, January 29, 2022 - 16:14:01

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Mining News Pro - The U.S. Department of the Interior canceled two mineral leases for Antofagasta Plc’s proposed Twin Metals copper and nickel mine in Minnesota on Wednesday, effectively killing the project and handing a major win to environmentalists.

Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 13:01:48

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Mining News Pro - Environmentalists sued the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse a 2017 land transfer that gave PolyMet Mining Corp more than 6,600 acres (2,670 hectares) needed to build an open pit copper and gold mine in northern Minnesota.

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 12:25:33

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Mining News Pro - The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday ordered state regulators to reconsider a wastewater permit that was granted to PolyMet Mining Corp to build an open-pit copper mine, though judges rejected six other challenges to the permit from environmentalists.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 13:21:44

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Mining News Pro - Tesla on Monday said it has signed its first US supply deal for nickel, tapping Talon Metals Corp’s Tamarack mine project in Minnesota.

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 - 13:05:37

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Mining News Pro - The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday proposed a 20-year ban on mining in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters region, a step that would block Antofagasta Plc’s Twin Metals copper and nickel mine project.

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 13:17:36

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Mining News Pro - The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has agreed to reconsider its decision to renew 13 prospecting permits in Minnesota, which could have allowed Antofagasta’s Twin Metals to expand its proposed copper-nickel mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - 23:25:00

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Mining News Pro - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is reportedly terminating the leases for the stalled Mesabi Metallics taconite mine on the Iron Range, after the company failed to meet deadlines imposed by the state.

Friday, May 7, 2021 - 14:05:33

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Mining News Pro - PolyMet Mining has petitioned the Minnesota Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling on the company’s air permit, which is necessary for a proposed copper-nickel mine on the Iron Range to go ahead.

Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 4:26:16 PM

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Mining News Pro - Chile’s Antofagasta said on Wednesday that it had kicked off the environmental permitting process for its $1.7 billion Twin Metals copper, nickel and platinum mining project in the United States after the Trump administration overturned an Obama-era decision to protect a nearby wilderness area.

Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 12:02:43 PM

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Mining News Pro - A coalition of businesses, environmental advocates and outdoor recreation groups in the state of Minnesota, U.S., have gone to court challenging a Trump administration’s decision that opened the door to a copper, nickel and platinum project in a wilderness area.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 1:38:34 PM

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Mining News Pro - GIW Industries, a leader in the design, manufacture, and application of heavy-duty centrifugal slurry pumps, is celebrating success with the recent replacement of a mill discharge pump at an iron ore plant in northern Minnesota, US.

Monday, December 24, 2018 - 10:08:13 AM

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