On a pine farm north of the tiny city of Tamarack, Minnesota, Talon Metals has uncovered one in every of America’s densest nickel deposits—and now it desires to start tunneling deep into the rock to extract a whole lot of hundreds of metric tons of mineral-rich ore a yr.

If regulators approve the mine, it may mark the place to begin in what this mining exploration firm claims would turn out to be the nation’s first full home nickel provide chain, operating from the bedrock beneath the Minnesota earth to the batteries in electrical automobiles throughout the nation.

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That is the second story in a two-part collection exploring the hopes and fears surrounding a single mining proposal in a tiny Minnesota city.

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