Move is a bid to reverse the cancellation of mineral leases for the company's proposed copper and nickel mine. Antofagasta nickelmining
The underground copper, nickel, cobalt and platinum group metals mining project is located in northeast Minnesota.
The suit, which had been expected, said the lease cancellations in January by the US Department of the Interior were “arbitrary and capricious” and that Twin Metals should have the right to prove its project can meet environmental standards.The underground mine would, if built, be a major US source of copper and nickel, two metals crucial for the green energy transition. The only existing US nickel mine is set to close by 2025.
“Our leases were illegally canceled by the government, and we want to stand up for what’s right and what’s prescribed by law,” said Dean DeBeltz, Twin Metals’ director of operations and safety. “A water-rich environment is the wrong place to mine,” said Becky Rom of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, a Minnesota conservation group. “The lawsuit is almost a effort on their part to try to somehow shoehorn in a mine.”
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