For more than two decades, 225,504 acres of mineral-rich land in northern Minnesota sat legally off-limits to mining. That changed on Thursday. The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 along party lines to repeal the 20-year mining ban that former President Joe Biden’s Interior Department placed on a stretch of the Superior National Forest in January 2023, […]

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