Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Financial investment bringing bright future

By IAN MINIELLY

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BESSEMER - Sylvain Collard, general manager of Highland Copper Company Inc., provided the Bessemer city council a brief before they voted on a resolution supporting the Highland Corporation's efforts to open up mines in the area. Collard outlined the three routes Highland is working on.

-The Copperwood project, which will begin construction in the third quarter of 2018 and should employ 250-350 people during construction and 300-400 during full-blown mining operations.

-The Whitepine North project, which is currently in desktop planning and accor...