Hoyt Lakes News

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Feb. 4--The county may need broadband more then ever after last week's fiber optic line outage.

The body of a 44-year old Twin Cities man, missing for almost two weeks, was found on the Iron Range today after an intense search in a heavily forested area east of Hoyt Lakes.

Mining plan allows both economic and environmental stewardship. In a recent commentary , Betsy Daub of Friends of the Boundary Waters suggested that the movie "Avatar" was being played out in the narrative of new mining operations proposed for northeastern Minnesota.

"He Did It!" blared the headline following Scott Brown's stunning victory in Massachusetts this week.

A major celebration for the crews at Mesabi Nugget on Tuesday night. The first iron nuggets rolled off the production line.

Increased demand for steel is providing some welcome relief in northeast Minnesota, where taconite pellet plants are coming back online after one of the worst years in recent memory.

If the state of Minnesota wants to avoid serious consequences caused by budget deficits, Rep.

A DNR official answers a question from one of hundreds of area residents who turned out Wednesday to learn more about the PolyMet EIS.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend Business North - The Daily Briefing - Business Newspaper Online PolyMet mine plan meeting draws huge crowd, despite cold 12/10/2009 by Beth Bily Bitter cold didn't keep them away at Mesabi East High School last night.

Like any meeting involving PolyMet, hundreds of people from around the Northland attended.

CHISHOLM, Minn. a ' I've spent my life on the Iron Range, caught in its mix of ethnic cultures, blue-collar hard-working ethics, and rural small-town living.

The Mesabi Nugget plant is scheduled to start pumping out iron nuggets, by mid-December. The world's first commercial iron nugget plant is being built at the former LTV site in Hoyt Lakes.

This is a hard issue... Copper and nickle are critical for the production of batteries / solar arrays / wind turbines / hybrid-electric automobiles / and other read more "green" energy technologies.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency invites the public to attend an informational meeting and to offer comments on the draft air quality permit amendment for the Mesabi Nugget Delaware LLC facility in Hoyt Lakes.

A three-month public comment period opened Monday on a controversial proposal for a copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota.

After a week of delay, the Department of Natural Resources has posted the full environmental impact statement on PolyMet Mining's proposed NorthMet project near Hoyt Lakes.

A proposed open-pit copper-nickel mine and processing plant on Minnesota's Iron Range would increase sulfate levels in several northeastern rivers, a long-awaited environmental review concluded Wednesday.

PolyMet, which would be located near Babbit and Hoyt Lakes, released a proposed environmental impact statement today.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 7:42 pm US/Central HOYT LAKES, Minn. 1 of 1 The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have released a draft environmental impact statement on the proposed PolyMet mine near Hoyt Lakes.

The DNR has posted the long-awaited draft Environmental Impact Statement for PolyMet on its website.