Put your best mine forward

October 26, 2015

In order to help him figure out whether copper-nickel sulfide mining is the cat’s pajamas or the worst idea in the history of ideas, Governor Dayton is going to visit two mines: one chosen by the mining romantics, and one by the people who choose to plan more than six weeks into the future, the […]

by Steve Timmer

Little mine problems

August 5, 2013

Little mines, not little problems

by Steve Timmer

The Commish mines him some bulls**t Part II

July 28, 2013

The miracle of the Immaculate Extraction

by Steve Timmer

There’s something rotten in Minnesota, a reprise

September 6, 2020

A story from September of 2019

by Steve Timmer

Never mind Denmark, there’s something rotten in Minnesota

September 16, 2019

Revelation after revelation

by Steve Timmer

Skipping down Memory Lane with PolyMet

June 22, 2019

If you get the right pollution regulators, they are your defenders, not your regulators

by Steve Timmer

Trust us; we’re good for it

May 14, 2017

Minnesota’s mining regulators at the Land and Minerals Division of the Department of Natural Resources face a stiff test of fidelity to the citizens of Minnesota as described in an article by Josephine Marcotty in the Strib’s paper edition on May 14th. The issue is: what are the financial reserves that must be set aside […]

by Steve Timmer