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orrcountry: If you were making a point by putting copper-nickel mining in parenthesis, I am aware that the industry uses the term copper-nickel, or the even more benign sounding non-ferrous mining. Sulfide mining is just as appropriate. The sulfide bearing rock of the Duluth Complex is problematic. Sulfide mining is not iron mining (that meets standards). Tom Rukavina has allowed our waters to be spoiled for decades. The taconite mines cannot or will not meet air and water quality standards. Sulfates from these mines are the trigger for methylmercury production that ultimately impacts our children. Rukavina wants the sulfate standard weakened so mines can meet it. There are water wells in (at least) one mining area that are contaminated with severely elevated levels of manganese. What do you think a neurotoxin does to children? In the quest to show the federal government or anyone else who is boss, our children are being sacrificed. School Trust and Health Trust. They both matter.

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