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Twin Metals’ operational headquarters in Ely. Credit: Courtesy of Twin Metals Minnesota
In his final months in office, Gov. Tim Walz is demonstrating how much power his successor will wield over the Boundary Waters’ future.
The outgoing governor’s Department of Natural Resources announced it will cancel a mineral lease near the wilderness area in November. A subsidiary of Twin Metals, a company in hot pursuit of copper-nickel mining in northeastern Minnesota, holds the lease.
The agency’s c...
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