Sulfide Mineral

Mining

With a focus on Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota

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Insights on sulfide mineral mining, energy projects, and community impacts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Potential negative characteristics of mining sulfide minerals

The abandoned Tulsequah Chief Mine in northwestern British Columbia has leaked toxic,...

Eagle Mine

               Eagle Mine – forest on all sides (Picture is from the...

Photo of the Porcupine Mountains

New mining in the Northern Midwest states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota

Image: Lake of the Clouds in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park...

Smith served in the U.S. Navy as an engineering officer before earning a master’s degree in geology. He spent his career in the energy industry, beginning as an exploration geologist and later serving as a corporate officer in publicly traded and private companies. In 2004, he founded Optimal Value Energy after leaving his role as Vice President of Energy Supply and Marketing. He now lectures and writes on energy topics and has testified before major U.S. and Canadian regulatory commissions.

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LeRoy Smith. Nearly Nuclear: A Mismanaged Energy Transition. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021. 290 pp. $29.95, paper, ISBN 978-1-61186-398-7. Reviewed by Jonathan Andrew Lear (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin–La Crosse).

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What Readers Are Saying

"Mr. Smith has done a wonderful job-researching the multitude of individual people, governmental rulings and political motivations that influenced the design, planning and construction of the Midland site. He has presented an unbiased summation of the pros and cons of the Midland project with a clarifying look into the thought processes associated with parties on both sides of the issue."
Douglas R Jackson, MD, AAOS
"A through review of the plant's unfortunate history which should be interesting to those who lived through it."
Craig Murchison