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LaDuke: Tamarack mine offers several questions, fewer answers
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Pine and Lakes Echo Journal | Pequot Lakes, Minnesota
ADVERTISEMENTTake the case of the proposed Talon Metals mine in Tamarack.
The basics: A set of foreign corporations, Canadian and British, have hatched a plan to haul 12 million tons of high grade ore out of the Tamarack mining project to someplace to make something.
That stellar company is partnered with Talon Metals, a junior Canadian mining corporation in the Talon Tamarack North Project which covers nearly 32 square miles of Akiing or Aitkin County area.
These sites end up as superfund sites — and the largest percentage of superfund sites are these mines.
The Talon site is likely the wettest site ever proposed for a nickel sulfide mine.