Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Copper mining returning to Western UP

By RICHARD JENKINS

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WHITE PINE - Construction on a copper mine in eastern Gogebic County that could lead to over 300 direct jobs could begin as early as 2018, Highland Copper president and CEO Denise Miville-Deschenes said Tuesday, with mining beginning in late 2020 and early 2021.

Miville-Deschenes provided the update on Highland's Copperwood Project, located in northern Ironwood and Wakefield townships, at a press conference Tuesday in White Pine. The Copperwood Project is the company's primary focus, he said, with White Pine North still in the early planning st...

 
 
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