Community Downloadable Flyers

Talon Mine Risks - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/TalonMineRisks.pdf)

Dangers of Sulfide Mining - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/SulfideMining.pdf)

Difference Between High Sulfide Mining and Taconite Mining - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/HighSulifideVSTaconite.pdf)

Wild Rice Impacts - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/WildRice.pdf)

Round Lake Impaired - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/RoundLakeImpaired.pdf)

Talon Dumping Toxic Drilling Waste - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/TalonToxicSumps.pdf)

Eagle Mine Environmental Impacts - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/EagleMineIssues.pdf)

Green Bridge Metals Corporation - PDF flyer - A Canadian-based exploration company focused on acquiring ‘battery metal’ rich mineral assets in the Duluth Intrusion, north of Duluth, Minnesota. (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/GreenBridgeMetals.pdf)

Is There Really a Talon Tesla Supply Agreement? (no) - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/TalonTesla.pdf)

Rio Tinto: A History of Corruption - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/RioTinto.pdf)

EV Batteries - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/EV-Battery.pdf)

Prove It First - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/ProveItFirst.pdf)

Copper and the Green Economy - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/CopperGreenEconomy.pdf)

Minnesota Mining Regulators - 1 page PDF (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/MinnRegulators.pdf)

Geology of Aitkin County - 1 page PDF flyer (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/AitkinGeology.pdf)

Summary Half Sheet (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/TWA-Summary.pdf)

Community Downloadable Presentations (top)

Download the Latest Mine Concerns Presentation Mine Concerns Presentation

Dangers of High Sulfide Mining (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/SulfideMining-details.pdf)

Friends of the Boundary Waters - Toxic Mining Near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/FriendsSulfideMiningPreso-20260107.pdf)

Saving NE MN Lakes from Pollution (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/2025_04June_NLSAP-TWA_meeting.pdf) by Sue Okerstrom of the Northern Lakes Scientific Advisory Panel (NLSAP)

Mapping MEPA: How to Engage in MN Environmental Review (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/MEPA20240306.pdf) by Joy Anderson, Supervising Attorney Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

Talon Metals/Rio Tinto Drilling, Sumps, and Cumulative Threats to Tamarack Region Waters and Communities ( https://tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/2025-09WaterLegacyTalonDrillingSumps.pdf) by Paula Maccabee - WaterLegacy Advocacy Director & Counsel.

Ignorance is NOT bliss ( https://waterlegacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-06-Paula-Slides-WaterLegacy-TWA-Final.pdf) by Paula Maccabee - WaterLegacy Advocacy Director & Counsel. This presentation reviews the Talon Mine proposed "project" and the need for a regional Tamarack intrusive complex study.

Sustainability and Copper Mining (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/Sustainability-Copper.pdf)

Protecting Minnesota's Shallow Lake and Wild Rice Heritage (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/GeisenShallowLakesWildRice20240207.pdf) by Ann Geisen MN DNR Shallow Lakes Program (Note: A statewide list of wild rice waters can be found at tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/StatewideWildRice20191122.pdf)

Human Health and Sulfide Mining (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/HumanHealthAndSulfideMining.pdf)

DNR page on the Talon Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (www.dnr.state.mn.us/input/environmentalreview/tamarack-nickel-project.html)

Water is Life - the Talon Tamarack Mine (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/WaterIsLife-TalonTamarack.pdf)

Eagle Mine Environmental Impacts Presentation (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/EagleMine-Anomolies.pdf)

Presentation on 1855 Treaty Rights (tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/TreatyRights.pdf)

Geology of Aitkin County (Presentation from the November 2022 community call)

Videos (top)

Defending Wild Rice and Our Collective Futures by Leanna Goose, Rise And Repair Alliance Organizer This presentation focuses on defending the sulfate standard and the reactive mine waste rule, the bedrock environmental protections for freshwater and manoomin (wild rice), within our state through positive advocacy at the Minnesota Capitol. Leanna explains the work the Rise and Repair Alliance is advancing to keep the legislature focused on creating stronger protections rather than stripping away current protections.

Organizational Resources (top)

Water Legacy ( waterlegacy.org/) - WaterLegacy is an award-winning grassroots non-profit 501(c)(3) organization formed in 2009 to counter the threat of sulfide mining proposed for Northern Minnesota.

Water Legacy Talon drilling map (waterlegacymn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=0ff7275aab134f05bdf0c171d20cecfa).

Water Over Nickel ( www.waterovernickel.com/) The proposed Tamarack Mine poses significant risks to the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's people, water, fish, and Manoomin (wild rice).

MCEA ( www.mncenter.org/) - Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy uses law and science to protect Minnesota’s environment, its natural resources, and the health of its people.

Freshwater Future ( freshwaterfuture.org/) - is a catalyst for community action that strengthens policies designed to safeguard the waters of the Great Lakes region.

Save Our Sky Blue Waters ( sosbluewaters.org/) - helps protect all of Minnesota's lands and waters from the dangers of sulfide mining.

Coalition to Save the Menominee River ( jointherivercoalition.org/about/) - The proposed Back Forty Mine on the Menominee River contaminates our air, waters, and soils. Contamination kills. The Coalition to Save the Menominee River believes an organized approach is the best way to save our waters, wildlife, property values, sacred lands, the tourism industry, and our people.

Protect Our Manoomin ( protectourmanoomin.weebly.com) - Protect Our Manoomin began as a vision of an Anishinaabe'kwe from northern Minnesota who became alarmed at the potential destruction of manoomin resulting from sulfate contamination.

North American Water Office ( www.nawo.org/) - focuses on electric utility wastes and the disproportionate adverse health and economic impacts of electric utility wastes on Indigenous Peoples, People of Color and those who live at subsistence levels.

Mining Action Group ( savethewildup.org/) - is a volunteer, grassroots effort to defend the clean water and wild places of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from the dangers of sulfide mining – previously known as Save the Wild U.P.

Sulfide Mining Related Resources (top)

The Tamarack Mine (https://tamarackmine.org/) - Talon Metals corporation proposed Tamarack Minnesota mine will be located in a water rich environment not suited for sulfide mining.

Friends of the Boundary Waters - including material from Prof. Emerman on the dangers of high sulfide mining (starting on slide 9) (docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tzn0n4FDJq9gr1qywIg2-3YIv11ey6d5)

Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org/minnesota/mining/sulfide-mining)

Mining Action Group (savethewildup.org/about/sulfide-mining-101/)

Earthworks - Copper Sulfide Mining (earthworks.org/issues/copper_sulfide_mining/)

Public Health Watch - Discussion of Minnesota Sulfide Mining (publichealthwatch.org/2022/07/07/protect-water-or-advance-green-energy)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23625128/
Sahoo, P. K., Kim, K., Equeenuddin, S. M., & Powell, M. A. (2013). Current approaches for mitigating acid mine drainage. Reviews of environmental contamination and toxicology, 226, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6898-1_1

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30476429/
Onello, E., Allert, D., Bauer, S., Ipsen, J., Saracino, M., Wegerson, K., Wendland, D., & Pearson, J. (2016).Sulfide Mining and Human Health in Minnesota, Minnesota medicine, 99(8), 51–55.

www.friends-bwca.org/wp-content/uploads/Prove_It_First_Bill_Report_Emerman_Revised.pdf
Steven H Emerman, The Minnesota Prove It First Bill and The Myth of Sulfide Ore Mining Without Environmental Contamination

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JG003788
A. Myrbo, E. B. Swain, N. W. Johnson, D. R. Engstrom, J. Pastor, B. Dewey, P. Monson, J. Brenner, M. Dykhuizen Shore, E. B. Peters; Increase in Nutrients, Mercury, and Methylmercury as a Consequence of Elevated Sulfate Reduction to Sulfide in Experimental Wetland Mesocosms

tamarackwateralliance.org/docs/KuipersMaest2006_EISComparisonsReport.pdf
Kuipers, J.R., Maest, A.S., MacHardy, K.A., and Lawson, G. 2006. Comparison of Predicted and Actual Water Quality at Hardrock Mines: The reliability of predictions in Environmental Impact Statements

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JG006809
Sophia LaFond-Hudson, Nathan W. Johnson, John Pastor, Brad Dewey. Sulfur Geochemistry Destabilizes Population Oscillations of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris)

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eap.1452
John Pastor, Brad Dewey, Nathan W. Johnson, Edward B. Swain, Philip Monson, Emily B. Peters, Amy Myrbo. Effects of sulfate and sulfide on the life cycle of Zizania palustris in hydroponic and mesocosm experiments

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479724029785
Paul Radomski, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Sarah Acquah, Angela L.H. Preimesberger, Anton Kvit. Spatiotemporal variation in fish mercury contamination: Comparing approaches for crafting consumption advisories and assessing impairment

Flambeau Mine information related to ground water contamination can be found at:

Eagle Mine Exception Reports can be found at (www.eaglemine.com/reports-and-documents)

Final Sulfide Mining Regulation in the Great Lakes Region report can be found here. This report analyzes statutes and regulations focused on sulfide mining, and their implementation, in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario.

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