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Twin Metals sues US to reinstate claims

Twin Metals Minnesota filed a significant lawsuit in the United States District Court in Washington Monday to reclaim its federal mineral leases for its copper-nickel project and reverse a series of what it called “arbitrary and capricious actions by federal agencies aimed at preventing the development of its modern mining project in northern Minnesota”.

 Antofagasta's Twin Metals project in Minnesota, USA

Antofagasta's Twin Metals project in Minnesota, USA

The company said the actions by the Department of Interior and Bureau of Land Management undercut America's long-term priorities of securing domestic supply chains, addressing climate change by moving...

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