Sep 20, 2012 ... Reforming Wisconsin's Mining Laws Will Create Jobs and Economic ... Roughly  two billion tons of iron ore are located on privately-owned property in Ashland  and Iron Counties – enough to sustain more than one-hundred years of mining. If  mining is allowed to occur, Northern Wisconsin could transform ...
An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate  billion of dollars in economic activity. — PolitiFact Wisconsin on Sunday, June ...
Oct 12, 2017 ... For the next 100 million years, lava bubbled up into what geologists call ... Rails  were laid for iron-ore transport, and the town of Ely was founded a few years later , ... of dollars during the past decade toward potential copper-nickel mines ...  mining jobs this copper-nickel operation could create in the coming ...
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is Wisconsin's largest business group.  ... An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and  generate ... like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and  Michigan." ... Wisconsin's laws "ranked the worst in the world for mining  investment.".
More than 13,000 operations mine for coal, metal ores and non-metallic ... U.S.  labor income associated with U.S. mining exceeded $100 billion in ... Mining  activity generated an estimated $18 billion in federal, state and local ... can be  considered conservative in that it does not include the economic or ... North  Carolina.
An iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin could operate for 100 years and generate billion of dollars in economic activity.