Canadian company begins test drilling for new mine sites

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From yesterday’s Mining Journal….

Mining exploration continues
By JOHN PEPIN, Journal Staff Writer

MARQUETTE — A Canadian mining company, exploring mineral deposits in the area since 2000, has announced plans to begin test drilling this month near the proposed site of the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company Eagle Project.

Laughing Whitefish RiverPrime Meridian Resources Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, plans to test drill at locations within two miles of the nickel and copper deposit on the Yellow Dog Plains sought by Kennecott

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Prime Meridian’s drilling will start in the Baraga Basin and Kiernan Sill nickel-copper project areas in settings similar to the Eagle Deposit. The areas are only accessible during winter.*

The company’s strategy for nickel-copper exploration has been to focus on the northerly portion of the Mid-continent Rift located in Michigan and Minnesota.

“The rift provides a deep-seated structure and conduit that permits the development of magmatic nickel-copper (plus or minus cobalt), platinum, palladium and gold mineralization to be deposited, which is similar to Kennecott-Rio Tinto’s Eagle Deposit,” the release said.

* IMPORTANT NOTE: This is because these areas are some of the most water-rich areas in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Photo credit: Laughing Whitefish River by James Phelps

2 thoughts on “Canadian company begins test drilling for new mine sites”

  1. The RAT is out of the bag. Kennecott has publicly announced that it will “explore the possibility” of opening several more sulfide hard rock mines in northern Mqt. Co. Now that the MIDEQ has approved the first, we can expect the others to be rubber stamped into existance. Add to that Prime Meridians explorations and the possibility of a uranium mine, it boggles the mind.

    Folks, northern Mqt. Co. will become the next industrial center of MI. The small environmental footprint of Eagle Project, as John Cherry likes to call it, will be magnified several fold. We really do not appreciate the total implication of all this activity. We, the public of the U.P. and the State have been sold down the proverbial river, by political and business interests. Just as Rio Tinto has exploited third world countries around the globe, we have found the U.P. and the State cast in the same light. They can buy and sell MI, welcome to the world.

  2. Folks seem to be coming up with all this new info on mineral exploration in the central and western U.P., but all the locations they provide are very general.

    Any chance Save the Wild U.P. can provide info on SPECIFIC locations of these drilling and lease sites so folks can go out and check what’s going on? (Twp, Range, Section, quarters)

    Thanks.

    Feel free to post this comment if you wish.

    -doug welker-