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Antofagasta's Twin Metals project would destroy several thousand surface acres of the public's land near Ely and turn it into an industrial mining zone, close that land off to access for anyone except the mining company, pollute the water, and destroy the sustainable Wilderness-edge economy. Claiming that tourism can coexist with that kind of destruction is laughable. Why would we allow Mining Minnesota's client, billionaire Chilean company Antofagasta, to destroy the public's land and pollute the public's water to mine the public's minerals? To provide a few ever-decreasing mining jobs for people who move here from elsewhere? Bob Tammen states the irrefutable truth: Mining is great for a relatively few people who get higher-paying jobs, but it's horrible for communities.

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