Keweenaw Now: Updated: Penokee iron mining . ·Updated: Penokee iron mining proposal threatens Bad River watershed ... where Gogebic Taconite ...

 · Watership Down: The reality of mining Mabola. Mabola is a strategic water source that feeds three of South Africa's major rivers, but the government has approved a .

 · For example, between River Alliance and its members, along with many other partners, fought back iron mining in the Penokee Hills in Iron County. River Alliance partnered with the Bad River Watershed Association to bring citizens together for mining summits that mobilized people to respond to the proposed iron mine.

 · Glenn Stoddard, a lawyer who represents the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, down river from the proposed mine, said the camp is a living demonstration of treaty rights, which include hunting, gathering and fishing. "This all goes back to the reserved rights the tribes maintained in their treaties," Stoddard said.

state laws in its favor of its proposal to mine lowgrade ironbearing minerals in the Penokee Hills that threatens the sensitive Bad River watershed that feeds the irreplaceable natural resources of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and Lake Superior itself," said Sierra Club – John Muir Chapter Mining Committee Chair Dave Blouin.

 · These proposed mines would be among the largest in the, ... the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, ... This proposed open pit iron mine, ...

 · The mine was to be sited in the Bad River drainage upstream from the Bad ... having a mine of the scale proposed and the tailings it will ... Citizens .

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 · The proposed quarry expansion would grow the BLM permit boundary of RMR's MidContinent Quarry site from acres to 447 acres, 320 of which would be disturbed by operations. This would set up the site to mine 5 million tons of limestone per year for the next 20 years. The MidContinent Quarry currently produces 40,000 to 60,000 tons of limestone per year.

 · Hayward, WI A group of protesters are facing arrest in northern Wisconsin. Members of Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Band of Ojibwe and others have been hosting a traditional harvest camp for nearly two months near a proposed mine site in Iron and Ashland counties. The mine, sought after by Gogebic Taconite, or GTAC, is a proposed open pit iron mine.

 · In Guinea, an illegal 6b gold 'bonanza' threatens endangered chimpanzees. Earlier this year, Australia's Predictive Discovery announced that it had found more than 6 billion in "bonanza ...

 · The Penokee Hills are the head waters of the Bad River watershed, which extends south into Lake Superior. Mining in the lush hills of the dairy state has a long history.

Updated Penokee iron mining proposal threatens Bad. Nov 19 2011 0183 32 By Michele Bourdieu View of the Penokee Hills in northern Wisconsin where Gogebic Taconite GTAC plans to put a huge open pit iron mine Click on photos...

Proposed iron mine overshadows Penokee art project Jun 25, 2012· An eduional 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."

 · Though I am not indigenous and have never claimed to be, I am grateful and touched to have been welcomed into some of those communities, and maintain that GTAC and their promine affiliates are waging extreme racist resource colonialism on the land and connected peoples and creatures with the proposed Penokee Mine, potentially the largest ironmine worldwide, as it would .