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[https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/issues/mining by Sierra Club] | [https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/issues/mining by Sierra Club] | ||
Mining — the extraction of minerals from the earth — has deep roots in Wisconsin. For millennia, Native Americans living near Lake Superior used the region’s abundant copper supply to forge tools, weapons, and jewelry, developing what is now called the Old Copper Culture. And beginning in the early 1800s, Wisconsin’s accessible lead deposits in the southwest part of the state attracted immigrants and helped to fuel the nation’s early growth. | Mining — the extraction of minerals from the earth — has deep roots in Wisconsin. For millennia, Native Americans living near Lake Superior used the region’s abundant copper supply to forge tools, weapons, and jewelry, developing what is now called the Old Copper Culture. And beginning in the early 1800s, Wisconsin’s accessible lead deposits in the southwest part of the state attracted immigrants and helped to fuel the nation’s early growth. | ||
=====The Rights of Nature Become a Rallying Point Against an Ascendant Mining Industry===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032025/rights-of-nature-against-mining-industry/ by Katie Surma 6/3/25 Inside Climate News] | |||
Jofré and other residents in the downstream town of Jáchal learned of the spill only after an employee at the mine, owned and operated by the Canadian company Barrick Gold, sent a WhatsApp message to a family member, warning of the danger. | |||
