Mar 22, 2013 ... Small district, big hole ... "The hole in the earth that's going to be dug (for the  proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.".
The hole in the earth that's going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is  bigger than my entire district. — PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, March 22nd, ...
MINE. BY W. C. HART, WAKEFIELD, MICH.*. As open pit mining on an extensive  scale has been unknown heretofore on the Gogebic Range, mining men.
Mining the ore body would start with a mine roughly 4 miles in length and 800  feet ... If the vein were to be completely dug out, the hole in the ground would be  big ... and says the proposed mine would be an ecological disaster for a region  that is ... industry that was four or five times larger than we could support, so the  mines ...
iron and copper mines of Michigan, and I take very great ... inures to the benefit or  detriment of the district as a whole. It is obvious that there are ... its first shipments  in 1900, sending about 62,500 tons to .... though even then ore was known to  exist on the Gogebic ...... shaft, the larger of which has a capacity of 1,200 gallons .
The hole in the earth that’s going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.