White Pine Solution Mining Papers, 1995-1999.

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White Pine Solution Mining Papers, 1995-1999.

Papers, 1995-1997, for the proposed acid solution mining project by the Copper Range Company in White Pine, Michigan. Includes environmental aspect and impact studies, permit applications, work plans for the remedial investigation, stockholder review drafts, lawsuit records, reports, and closure plans and reports.

5.0 cubic feet; 5 paige boxes.

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Copper Range Company

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The proposal to introduce solution mining at White Pine generated great controversy in [Michigan's Upper Peninsula] in the mid-1990s. Heated public meetings pitted insiders against outsiders, and environmentalists and protectors of Lake Superior against protectors of jobs and the local economy. The controversy also pitted Governor John Engler and Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality against President Clinton and the Environmental Protection Agency (from "Hollowed ground: c...

Michigan. Dept. of Environmental Quality

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