Talon Metals near Tamarack?
January 28th, 2021
Talon Metals is in the news…
Talon hits high-grade massive sulphide mineralisation at Tamarack Nickel
… and it’s something Minnesota needs to pay attention to. I got a heads up from a friend who lives nearby, at a time when they were expanding the area they were “exploring.” Their location in Tamarack seems, well, like something I’d expect of a company HQ in British Virgin Islands, though the article has them posing in front of a different building:
And this:
Looking at these “maps” I’m thinking of knee surgery, hard to recognize as a map:
This is more like it:
This looks like their area, from google earth (how did we live without the internet?):
Check this inset map in lower right corner — huge file, doesn’t want to save, so here’s the link: https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/lands_minerals/mpes_projects/mnmin2017_coppernickel.pdf
Legalectric post from a while ago:
Tamarack copper-nickel exploration?
And here’s their PR blurb:
PolyMet Draft Permit issued — WHERE IS IT?
January 6th, 2018
PolyMet’s Draft Site Permit has been released by the Dept. of Natural Resources. Here’s the link:
And in there are some links — official word from Barb Naramore, DNR, is that the Permit to Mine Application & Appendices and DNR’s Draft Special Conditions constitute the “Draft Site Permit” for the PolyMet mine, based on this statement:
Following review of PolyMet’s permit to mine application, DNR has prepared draft special conditions for the application. Together, the application and the draft special conditions are considered the draft permit to mine for the NorthMet project.
Guess that’s what they’re presenting as the “Draft Site Permit” for review and comment, but it looks pretty bizarre to me!
Here is that application and special conditions:
- Permit to Mine Application and Appendices (755 MB)
(12/13/2017)- Appendix 16 provided separately – Final Environmental Impact Statement and Related Environmental Reports(1.3 GB)
(12/13/2017)- Appendix 18.1 Wetland Replacement Plan Attachment D-1 (1 MB)
(01/05/2018)- DNR’s Draft Special Conditions (2 MB)
Why did I ask about this? You’ll note above, there is the DNR’s Draft Special Conditions, but tell me, do you see a Draft Site Permit anywhere? I’d spent a lot of time looking, and cannot find anything that resembles a “Draft Site Permit.” So I asked around. Oh, but wait, there’s no project contact info on any of the DNR’s pages or press release. WHAT? No problem, I have contact info for the chief grand poohbahs at the DNR, and that worked.
To Comment:
DNR’s PolyMet’s Permitting COMMENT Page (note you are asked to accept set up to Comment online
In the news:
4 things to know about the PolyMet mine — MPR
With Minnesota mining permit, PolyMet proposal reaches a turning point – STrib
Comments will be accepted through March 6, 2018. Two public meetings (not hearings?) will be held. Petitions for a Contested Case may NOT be filed using the online commenting form, so they say at the link above!
Comments and objections may be submitted by US mail to the following address:
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Are they frackin’ insane?
April 21st, 2011
There was a meeting at the Red Wing library Monday night about the rumored fracking sand mine south of Re d Wing, and just north of Hay Creek. By the time the meeting was underway, it was standing room only.
The article from the Red Wing Republican Beagle is down below.
Here’s a post with some details of this project to be:
No frackin’ way!!!
Goodhue County’s Article 14 covers mining, but so far it’s been aggregate, and not silica, and it’s a different process, whole different sort of mining, so my thought is that Article 14 needs some amendments. A ordinance change application is just $500 and some work to draft language…
Here’s a map — the site is on the left, and the transfer station in Florence Twp. is on the right, a railroad spur west of Hwy 61 near Hanson’s Harbor:
Citizens turn out in large numbers against possible Goodhue County sand mine
By: Regan Carstensen, The Republican EagleThey got their 10 people – 10 times over.
Silica sand, as opposed to normal sand, is worth about $1,400 per ton.
For more info on the other end of the process, what they use the sand for (fracking) and to learn about what they’re doing with proppants:
In the New York Times (very interesting to learn that instant coffee is used!!!):
Millions of Gallons of Hazardous Chemicals Injected Into Wells
And here’s how bad it’s gotten in Pennsylvania:
PA DEP, Marcellus Shale Coalition Admit Drilling Wastewater Likely Contamination Drinking Water
PolyMet Draft EIS released
October 28th, 2009
WOW… and here I thought PolyMet’s Draft EIS was as moribund as the EIS for Excelsior Energy’s Mesaba Project. Nope, here it is:
It’s HUGE, it will take a while, there are a lot of parts.
They are not accepting comments until after November 2, so after that time, I’ll post info on that.