Harbor City students seek transparency from sulfide-ore mining company

Tamarack, Minnesota is the site of a proposed underground nickel mine. This footage depicts two trips a little more than a year apart to the core shed of Talon Metals in Tamarack. WaterLegacy had a collaboration going with Harbor City International School students to study the reasoning behind opposition to sulfide ore mining in Minnesota.

In the first clip, Talon’s chief exploration officer is asked when the feasibility study will be done, to which he replies that he doesn’t know. His colleague then agrees with the students that “sooner would be better than later.”

In the second clip — a year later at the onset of the first round of public comment in the environmental review process — a WaterLegacy staffer reads an official statement from the company stating that its conceptual surface layout “is not supported by a prefeasibility study, a feasibility study or any other form of engineering study or report.”