The Dec. 20, 2024 Timberjay article, “Trump Victory Boosts Copper-Nickel Prospects,” contains a quote that says about mining critics: “They are just scared.”
This continues a practice of mining promoters that depicts environmental defenders as driven by emotion and ignorance when in fact they are motivated by courage and science. 
Any serious analysis of mining in Minnesota leads to the observation that an exploration rig is a complicated rotary machine dedicated to the discovery of government subsidies and gullible investors.  Our low-grade iron and copper-nickel ore bodies provide ample evidence.
Our Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency promote respectable polluting when they should be cleaning up past failures to regulate.  Our assets are shipped out of state while our liabilities accumulate in abandoned pits, tailings ponds, and ground water.
We’re not scared.  We’re just reacting logically to an industry that has a record of failure.
Bob Tammen
Soudan