New interest in domestic mining comes with call for sustainability in the market

New interest in domestic mining comes with call for sustainability in the market
Great Lakes Echo

By Joe Lorenz

Electrification and tariffs mean rural Midwest communities can cash in on their mineral resources. But how can these ventures balance local benefit to the ecological cost?

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Police probing damage to 27,000-volt wire that caused power loss

Police probing damage to 27,000-volt wire that caused power loss
London Free Press
London police are investigating damage to a 27,000-volt wire that sparked a small fire and knocked out power to about 5,000 London Hydro customers Friday morning. The suspected attempt to steal copper was condemned by the utility’s chief executive and municipal leaders, who said the act put the lives of first responders and hydro workers […]
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Michigan lawmakers try to get funding for U.P. copper mine – again

Michigan lawmakers try to get funding for U.P. copper mine – again
Great Lakes Commission
Michigan lawmakers are trying a different route to secure funding for a controversial copper mine in the western Upper Peninsula after grant dollars did not get approved last year.  Read […]
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Pushing the Boundary

Interlochen Public Radio
In the early 1800s, a group of politicians decided part of the Ohio border should move farther north. It started a decades-long border fight between Michigan and Ohio. There were winners. There were losers. And in the end, it shaped the states as we know them.
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Mining created these Lake Superior black sand beaches. One’s a tourist destination, the other a Superfund site.

Mining created these Lake Superior black sand beaches. One’s a tourist destination, the other a Superfund site.
Great Lakes Commission
Mining operations left behind uniquely colored beaches in Minnesota and Michigan, but the materials are different. Minnesota’s Black Beach in Silver Bay contains stamp sands from taconite tailings and is […]
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A London plant making copper products that recently broke ground on a major expansion, has vowed to take the threat of U.S. tariffs “head on,”said the head of  a London manufacturing group.

London Free Press
Great Lakes Copper, Canada’s only copper milling plant, recently announced a 90,000 sq. ft. expansion to its Clarke Road facility.
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There are not massive job losses forecast for the auto sector when steep tariffs were initially threatened by the U.S. President Donald Trump at the end of 2024, but it has certainly hurt production a

There are not massive job losses forecast for the auto sector when steep tariffs were initially threatened by the U.S. President Donald Trump at the end of 2024, but it has certainly hurt production a
London Free Press
Massive job losses predicted when steep tariffs were first threatened by former U.S. president Donald Trump in late 2024 have not materialized,.
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Accused in armed carjacking previously charged in St. Thomas pursuit

Accused in armed carjacking previously charged in St. Thomas pursuit
London Free Press
A London man charged in an armed carjacking faced previous charges following a police pursuit in St. Thomas two years ago, according to court records.
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Scratching the Right Itch

Interlochen Public Radio
Ron Reimink knew how uncomfortable and annoying swimmer’s itch could be. He spent much of his adult life trying to eradicate it in lakes across northern Michigan. Then one day, he realized he was completely wrong.
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Driver killed in single-vehicle crash: Ontario Provincial Police

Driver killed in single-vehicle crash: Ontario Provincial Police
London Free Press
A driver is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Tillsonburg on Wednesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say. Vienna Road at Simcoe Street and Old Vienna Road in Tillsonburg was closed following a single-vehicle crash, Oxford OPP said on social media Wednesday at about 10 a.m. The crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. and the driver […]
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