Well, Minnesota, home of “the world’s largest known undeveloped copper-nickel deposit”, might not be doing anything anytime soon to ease the copper shortage.
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The Biden administration dealt a serious blow Wednesday to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, ordering a study that could lead to a 20-year ban on mining upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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https://apnews.com/article/business-...9251df7d1c808d
Between copper for the brass and lead for the bullets I’m starting to get real discouraged.
Maybe the private space companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX can do some asteroid mining a la E. E. Smith’s 1930’s sci-fi classic ‘Gray Lensman’. Anybody know if there are copper or lead asteroids out there?