Things are looking up for Minnesota's nascent helium industry, because miners keep going down to find more of it.

NASHWAUK, Minn. — A controversial $2 billion-plus mining project on Minnesota’s Iron Range that has weathered an economic recession, missed deadlines and payments, bankruptcy, changes in ownership, ...

Construction continues at the site of Mesabi Metallics on Nov. 19, 2024, in Nashwauk, Minn. After almost two decades, the nearly $2 billion project is nearing completion with a goal of producing ...

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The area is separate and just south of where Twin Metals has proposed building its underground copper-nickel mine.

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The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota announced Wednesday that they plan to conduct a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to ...