A fiercely contested Minnesota copper-nickel mining proposal is among stymied mineral and energy development projects President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to quickly reanimate after he is sworn into a second Oval Office term on Jan. 20.
The former president said it would be addressed as quickly as “about 10 minutes” during a July 27, 2024, campaign rally with Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Trump promised to reverse the Biden administration’s 20-year mining ban on 225,500 acres within Superior National Forest and restore rescinded mineral leases held for decades by Twin Metals Minnesota and predecessor companies.
The ban, issued in 2023 by the Department of the Interior (DOI), effectively buried Twin Metal’s $1.7 billion proposal to extract copper, nickel, cobalt, and other minerals on up to 25,000 acres within the national forest in what would the largest open-pit mine in Minnesota history—and first in the state since 1967—that the Chilean-owned company says would employ 850 over its projected 30-year operation.
The proposed mine drew heated opposition from a range of local and national groups that argued it is too close to Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a 1.1 million-acre sprawl of ecologically fragile forests, glacial lakes, and streams in northeast Minnesota on the Canadian border.
As the nation’s “most heavily visited” wilderness teeming with wildlife, including wolves and black bears, and cherished for its blue-ribbon walleye, northern pike, and bass fishing, opponents say Twin Metals’ proposed mine on the Kawishiwi River and Birch Lake near Ely would endanger 1,000 jobs and $77 million in annual revenues generated by “out of area” recreational and outdoors enthusiasts. […]
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