A mining company will continue mineral exploration near the top of the Wolf River, an activity that has raised alarms among some local citizens involved about the fitness of the pristine river.
Eric Quigley, the company’s consultant, said the effects of the drilling program were not extra value research and that the company would not acquire the land on which the drilling took place, but that does not mean that the company would possibly not continue to explore in the north. Wisconsin.
“While the company has no immediate plans to conduct further drilling on this plot, it is imaginable that more exploration work (including drilling) will be done in the future,” Quigley wrote in an email Wednesday afternoon.
He also said it is not unusual for exploratory projects to end up like this.
“It’s rare to compare a scan goal that warrants additional testing, it’s even uncommon to see the same goal in a complex scan assignment,” he said in an email. “And exceptionally uncommon for this goal in an allocation where the viability of a genuine mining is envisaged. “
In June, the company drilled six wells at shoepke’s site, extracting carrots from the soil in search of valuable minerals extracted from the soil. The site is about 20 miles from the Rhinelander Gates and crosses a tributary of the Wolf River. The domain where drilling took place is part of a mineral-rich northern Wisconsin strip, which adds zinc, lead, copper, gold, and silver.
Badger Minerals is a subsidiary of Canadian company Can-American Minerals Inc. , which aims to explore viable mineral deposits. The company is composed of several investors and exploration geologists who delight in carrying out exploration projects in the United States and Canada.
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But the company faced repression from local citizens and tribal nations in the region, who said the land was sacred to them.
Ron James, who has actively opposed exploratory drilling, said Wisconsin citizens across the state are pleased that no additional action is taken at the site.
“This gave all Wisconsinns a blow to their taxes for cleaning up the disaster that remains after a mine,” he said.
Eric Rempala, another activist who campaigned against drilling, welcomed the news, but said it was just a small respite from the opposing combat of mining in Wisconsin. after years of prohibition, and teach the citizens of Wisconsin about the effects mining can have.
“We’re running to get more local power, let more voices be heard,” he said. “But we know it’s a long process. “
For now, Rempala and others are executing an ordinance that can be passed in mining cities and eventually passed to the county government. He said the fact that Badger Minerals hasn’t discovered enough minerals to justify an additional exploration or a mine doesn’t mean they would. may not be located enough elsewhere in the state.
“We who are a target, ” he said.
Laura Schulte can be contacted leschulte@gannett. com and twitter. com/SchulteLaura.
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