A recent article in Reuters said it best: power, meaning electricity, is the Achilles heel of all industrial production plants, and all metals are to some extent impacted by the…
Mine permitting on federal lands has slowed under President Biden, according to a report from E&E News. The report highlights some of the inconsistencies between President Biden’s supposed desire to…
Good news on the mining front today as PolyMet Mining and Teck Resources have announced a joint venture that would place their respective Minnesota projects, which contain high-in-demand copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum-group metals under…
Bloomberg writes that pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try and spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the US and Canada,…
Yesterday, I detailed how the Biden administration’s EPA has recommended that the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers vote to not renew the Clean Water Act Section 400 permit for the…
The Biden administration has suffered another devastating blow from the Biden administration. President Biden’s latest setback occurred as President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a recommendation to the Army…
On March 31, 2020, Julie Padilla, the Chief Regulatory Officer of Twin Metals Minnesota, testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to inform the…
Telsa has announced it will increase the cost of all its electric vehicle models for the second time in the last several days. According to Inside EVs, the price hikes…
Anti-mining groups in Minnesota like to pretend that our state’s deposits of copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and palladium are globally insignificant, so they can argue that we don’t need to…
In 2020, American Experiment warned that a Biden administration would likely cancel the mineral leases for the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. Yesterday, President Biden did exactly…
Tesla has reportedly signed a deal worth $1.5 billion to purchase the nickel produced at the proposed Tamarack mine, located in Aitkin County, Minnesota. According to Mining.com: Under the terms…
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has upheld the air permit for the PolyMet mining project in Northeastern Minnesota. This act rebukes anti-mining groups who oppose the project, despite the scientific…
On Monday, American Experiment described how the rising demand for nickel is resulting in expanded mining for the essential metal in a rainforest in the Philippines. Today, we will take…
NBC News reports that rising demand for the nickel used in the batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) is prompting the expansion of a nickel mine located in a rainforest in…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been ordered by a court to review the state’s rules governing copper-nickel, and other non-iron mining. The agency is accepting public comment through…
The Duluth News Tribune recently ran a story on the proposed Tamarack nickel mine near Tamarack, Minnesota. Talon Metals, which owns a majority stake in the project, told investors a…