Nicolet Minerals Company and Wisconsin There is currently a war being fought in the northern half of Wisconsin between Nicolet Minerals Company, a subsidiary Rio Algom Mining Company, and many of the area residents and legislature. The Nicolet Minerals Company (formerly Crandon Mining Company) is planning to open a copper mine in the center of the headwaters of the Wolf River. This is causing anger, lawsuits, and raising questions of the local Menominee Indians’ treaty rights. The proposed mine would certainly effect the environment of northern Wisconsin. Nicolet Minerals Company plans to extract fifty-five million tons of rock to retrieve two million tons of zinc-copper ore over the next twenty-eight years. The by-product of copper sulfide mining is sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is the largest negative environmental impact made by an....

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