Metal Minings News

NEGAUNEE — Dagmar Rytkonen, 97, said she remembers living above the Vista Theatre in Negaunee, a building that her father, Jafet Rytkonen, built in 1911.
Negaunee High School juniors Brad St. Germain,16, and Jesse Anderson, 17, listened eagerly to the elderly woman, recording her …

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Students get a living history lesson

MARQUETTE — Last week’s tug barge accident in Marquette’s Lower Harbor is still under investigation after the successful recovery of the boat’s propulsion unit Friday morning.
According to Lt. Caren Damon, public affairs officer for the Coast Guard’s Sault …

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Boat’s propulsion unit retrieved from Superior

ISHPEMING —?Kermit the Frog once lamented that “It’s not easy being green.”
And he was right. Just ask the City of Ishpeming.
Ishpeming has been assisting its residents in the fight to be environmentally friendly by providing a recycling service that picks up items such as plastic, cardboard and metal.

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City struggles with costs of going ‘green’

The federal government now requires that any plans for anything related to nuclear energy (mining, milling, enrichment, etc.) take into account not only the beginning of the operation, but how the operation will look centuries later. …

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Copper was discovered in Kapunda in 1942, and mining commenced two years later after analysis of the ore samples was done in England. Kapunda became the first copper mining town in Australia, and by 1851 there were 2000 people living …

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Kapunda copper mining