Published 4 months ago

Massive taconite mills are being removed, recycled from old Erie, LTV plant

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NewRange Copper Nickel, a joint venture between Glencore and Teck, is making room in the former taconite concentrator. The company hopes to one day separate copper, nickel and other minerals from ore mined at the nearby NorthMet deposit. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is revisiting the project's water permit after a court said it did not adequately consider federal regulator concerns.

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Massive taconite mills are being removed, recycled from old Erie, LTV plant

NewRange is clearing out the quarter-mile-long concentrator building, which it hopes to use as a processing plant for a copper-nickel mine. But several key permits have been revoked or are on hold.

4 months ago·Fargo, United States

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Duluth News Tribune

Massive taconite mills are being removed, recycled from old Erie, LTV plant

HOYT LAKES For the last 23 years, the former Erie Mining Co. concentrator has sat dormant. But since last summer, the quarter-mile-long building has been humming with activity again. The overhead crane spanning the building is up and running, hoisting each of the 64 190-ton ball and rod mills and carrying them across the concentrator to a remote-control flatbed, which carries the mills to a scrapyard to be dismantled, separated into different…

4 months ago·Cherokee County, United States

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