Congratulations are in order to northern Minnesota Congressman Pete Stauber (R, 8th). At a time when Congress can’t even pass a bill as simple as funding the Department of Homeland…
This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources announced that it would take a closer look at the role that three national environmental groups played in opposing Minnesota mining projects.…
Yesterday, the House subcommittee on energy and mineral resources heard testimony on six mining bills that will help to Make Mining American Again. Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08), chairman of the…
The Trump administration has singled out the most crucial electrification metal, copper, as a focus of its domestic minerals policy. Last week, an executive order was released “addressing the threat…
A recent report from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), a global security nonprofit, found that Chinese firms control around 75 percent of Indonesian nickel production capacity. With Indonesia…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has suspended proceedings on the NewRange Copper Nickel project until August 2025. The company is studying potential changes to the project’s design as of…
Advocates of copper-nickel mining in Minnesota received bad news when Talon Metals announced it would build a $433 million battery mineral processing plant in North Dakota—instead of Minnesota. Talon chose…