From the Lansing State Journal:
STEPHENSON – Deb Skubal looks out her window and sees a pristine forest and the Menominee River meandering through the woods.
Geologist Tom Quigley looks at the same scene and envisions the riches beneath the ground: gold, silver and zinc, trapped in rock nearly 2 billion years old.
Their viewpoints appear to be on a collision course that illustrates a conflict between the needs of an increasingly global economy and the environmental disruption that may result from meeting those needs.
Quigley is president of Aquila Resources Inc., a Canadian mining exploration company that’s searching for precious metals in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula a stone’s throw from the Menominee River and the Wisconsin state line. Skubal, on the Wisconsin side, is among a group of residents – on both banks – opposed to sulfide mining, in which metals are removed from sulfide rock dug from huge open pits.
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