Sulfide Mining Will Damage Michigan

So what you're saying is you'd rather have poor rock piles and subsidence, or open pit mines. Gotcha.

michigan needs jobs....but not these kind of jobs.........

mining has fucked up west virginia, wyoming, oregon, ect, weve had our share, we dont want anymore.


preseve our wild ares and tell those rio tinto (parent company of kennecott) bastards to fuck off back to the UK.

actually michigan produces lots of sugar from sugar beets.

Gadolinium158 is right sulfuric acid does not occur in concentrations that are harmful from amd. the highest concentrations in nature come from volcanic areas such as yellowstone national park. even with these pools of sulfuric acid there is still plant and animal life flourishing around. Plus the owners of the mine are not dumb enough to cut corners and allow large concentrations into waterways. As far as the demonstration goes, concentrated sulfuric acid will never naturally touch pure sugar.

lololol, the cup made a poopy! But honestly, that's pure/near pure sulfuric acid, a mine's acid would be 3-7%...

These people have no idea what they are talking about. Sulfuric acid cannot possibly exist in such concentrations in AMD. Yes, sulfuric AMD will have an effect on local rivers if not controlled, but if a mine is operated responsibly, the environmental consequences will be minor. If the mine plan is approved, which I hope it will be, it will provide thousands of jobs for locals. I consider myself to be environmentally concious, but with