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Mining-Related Drilling Near Wolf River Would Be First In Wisconsin In Years
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:06:33
Publish Date: 2020-02-27 06:30:00
Description: In the winter, snowshoes are the best way to navigate a swath of undeveloped, wooded, privately-owned land between Monico and Pelican Lake in Oneida County. The simple forest roads that exist are snow-covered and unplowed. In late January, Badger Minerals, a Michigan-based subsidiary of a Canadian company, announced plans to drill several holes on this tract, seeking to learn more about minerals under the snowy surface. Some of those holes, which would likely average a depth of 400 feet, would be within a few thousand feet of the Wolf River. If it happens, it would be the first mining-related exploratory drilling in Oneida County since at least the 1980s, and the first in Wisconsin since drilling in 2012 at the Bend deposit in Taylor County. In 1997, the last loads of copper and gold ore were hauled were hauled from the Flambeau Mine near Ladysmith. That’s the last time any actual metallic mining took place in Wisconsin. Badger Minerals declined an interview for this story, but
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