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Jun 25, 2012· An educational art project about Wisconsin's Penokee Hills moves from Madison to Ashland this weekend. The exhibit can't completely escape the political controversy of a proposed iron ore mine. 20 northwoods artists and writers are involved in the project, which is called "Penokee: Explore the Iron Hills." There will be an opening ceremony ...

A mining bill is coming any day now and is expected to be acted on early in the session. The question is whether the bill has any hope of actually producing a mine. Discussion of mining legislation centers around a proposed iron ore mine in the Penokee-Gogebic Range in the northern part of the state. The project has more than its share of doubters.

The Penokee Hills mining venture will be carefully monitiered by area residents. Please send any information that you may have concerning this proposed project. Newspaper articles, documents from past efforts to begin mining, or personal stories to: savethewatersedge. Articles and pictures will be scanned and incuded on this web page

Penokee Hills Education Project Now Concentrating On, Jan 16, 2017· The Penokee Hills Education Project has been holding a series of meetings this month to draw awareness to Enbridge's pipelines, specifically Line 5 The group's Frank Koehn said they're worried a potential oil spill could be more harmful to the region's waters than any iron mine

WISCONSIN -- Wisconsin Public Radio will broadcast a discussion about the proposed Penokee Iron mining project beginning at 6 p.m. (CST) TONIGHT, Wednesday, Jan. 19.The two-hour live broadcast will include representatives from Gogebic Taconite Company, the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS), and the Ashland and Iron County Development Associations.

(Click on above image to view larger Penokee Mine Map) Mining Links: All news articles will be displyed with dates and links. August 3, 2015: La Pointe Iron Co., owner of the majority of the land leased to GTAC in the Penokee Hills, met with Iron County Board members to discuss the possibility of mining La Pointe Iron's land by a different ...

Jun 20, 2013· The Penokee Hills region may become one of the world's largest open pit mines in North America unless we act today to help preserve its pristine nature. The mining company, Gogebic Taconite (GTAC), plans to start mining for iron ore taconite at the headwaters of .

Later that month GTAC suspended their pursuit of an open-pit mine in the Penokee Range. As with any precious metal, the price of iron ore fluctuates according to market demand. Even though GTAC dropped the project, they or another company—for better or worse—might again pursue the rights to mine the Penokee Range.

The mining industry sustained the area for 85 years with no known environmental effects. When Gogebic Taconite began pursuing an iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin, the numbers grabbed both supporters and opponents. Controversy. Proponents of the project say that the first mining phase will last 35 years and create 700 direct mining jobs.

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF DOCUMENTARY ON PROPOSED PENOKEE IRON MINE. Hayward, September 11, Park Theatre, 6:30pm. A short documentary film which addresses the controversial, proposed iron mine in the Penokee Hills will be .

Penokee Hills Education Project, Ashland, WI. 1,221 likes · 56 were here. Public education, networking, and grassroots organizing on the environmental,...

Iron mining in the Penokee Hills, USA ... a subsidiary of The Cline Group, announced plans for a $1.5 billion iron ore mine in the pristine Penokee Mountains in Northern Wisconsin. The open pit mine would sprawl over four miles of privately-held managed forest land [1]. ... Wisconsin DNR. Gogebic Taconite, LLC, potential mining project ...

Pete Rasmussen is the vice president of the Penokee Hills Education Project and is a professional photographer and carpenter. A tireless advocate for protecting Wisconsin's Northwoods, Pete's tours of the Penokee Hills, Tyler Forks and Potato River Falls help people understand the complexity and value of the Bad River Watershed and Lake Superior basin.

Jul 28, 2013· THE PENOKEE RANGE – The fight over the fate of a massive iron ore mine has moved this summer from the state Capitol in Madison to the forests of northwestern Wisconsin and the green, undulating ridges along which Gogebic Taconite wants to dig its 4½-mile-long pit. National and state news coverage ...

The Penokee Hills mining venture will be carefully monitiered by area residents. Please send any information that you may have concerning this proposed project. Newspaper articles, documents from past efforts to begin mining, or personal stories to: savethewatersedge. Articles and pictures will be scanned and incuded on this web page

Phase I (approximately 35 years). Open pit iron mining of this scale in the Penokee Range would have permanent effects to the environment. The footprint of the initial stage of the project has been variously described by Gogebic Taconite as 4 miles Tailings and tailings ponds at Minntac, MN iron mine _Dry tailings disposal in Chile.7

A mining bill is coming any day now and is expected to be acted on early in the session. The question is whether the bill has any hope of actually producing a mine. Discussion of mining legislation centers around a proposed iron ore mine in the Penokee-Gogebic Range in the northern part of the state. The project has more than its share of doubters.

Location of the proposed Penokee Hills Mining Project. Iron County Ashland County. The Penokee Hills - Located in Ashland and Iron Counties. Link to the Bad River Watershed Map. please contact savethewatersedge@gmail Map of the Penokee ...

The iron formations of Wisconsin contain fibrous amphibole minerals, and asbestiform grunerite has been found at the site of the proposed Gogebic Taconite project.). The Northshore mine on the Eastern end of Minnesota's iron range is also a documented source of several amphibole minerals. Asbestos is a human health hazard; extended

More asbestos-like fibers have been discovered in rock samples from the Penokee Hills of Northwestern Wisconsin, where a company had proposed to build an open-pit iron mine. According to a ...

The Penokee Hills Education Project is an education and outreach project of the Mining Impact Coalition and is focused on issues related to the proposed development of iron mining .

Oct 19, 2011· Sulfide mining targets minerals like copper, lead, zinc, gold, and silver that are contained in sulfide ores, which generate sulfuric acid when exposed to air and water. But G-Tac's proposal is for an iron mine, not a sulfide mine, and thus doesn't fall under the perview of Wisconsin 's mining moratorium law. Michigan's Tilden Mine.

The Goegebic Taconite Mine Project was a proposed mining project by Gogebic Taconite, LLC. in Ashland and Iron County, Wisconsin. The $1.5 billion project would create 700 jobs at the mine, as well as 2,800 spin off jobs in the local areas towns.

Read more about the threat the controversial open-pit iron ore mining posed to the Penokee Range in Iron and Ashland counties. Non-metallic mining – including frac sand. Non-metallic mining is the extraction of stone, sand, rocks, and other similar minerals. The most common example of a non-metallic mine is a quarry.
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