{"id":283,"date":"2011-09-17T13:39:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T18:28:28","slug":"mining-promises-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/mining-promises-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining Promises and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_317\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-317\" title=\"Employment MN Mining\" src=\"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Employment-MN-Mining-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Non-Ferrous Mining Employment reality different than the sales pitch\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Employment-MN-Mining-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Employment-MN-Mining-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Employment-MN-Mining.jpg 1319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What would be different about Non-Ferrous Mining? Nothing!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From &#8220;Mining in Minnesota&#8217;s Iron Range: Past and Future Perspectives by Thomas Michael Power, Economics Department, The University of Montana:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Economic Promise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Tremendous Wealth Extracted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> High Wages Paid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Economic Outcoume:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Depressed and Rundown Towns &amp; Regions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Lower average incomes, higher unemployment<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Mining Regions are Economically Depressed <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What would be different with Copper Nickel Sulfide Non-Ferrous mining?\u00a0 Absolutely nothing except for the significantly increased problems from acid mine drainage and the long term cleanup costs.\u00a0 Ely Buzz!<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\nThe complete report can be viewed here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-bwca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/mn_mining_economics_power.pdf\">&#8220;Past and Future Perspectives on Minnesota Mining.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What would be different about Non-Ferrous Mining? Nothing!<\/p>\n<p>From &#8220;Mining in Minnesota&#8217;s Iron Range: Past and Future Perspectives by Thomas Michael Power, Economics Department, The University of Montana:<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Promise:<\/p>\n<p> Tremendous Wealth Extracted<\/p>\n<p> High Wages Paid<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Outcoume:<\/p>\n<p> Depressed and Rundown Towns &amp; Regions<\/p>\n<p> Lower average incomes, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,49,37,54,110],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}