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PolyMet mine in Minnesota becomes NewRange Copper Nickel

FILE - The closed LTV Steel taconite plant sits idle near Hoyt Lakes, Minn., Feb. 10, 2016. PolyMet Mining and Teck Resources finalized a joint venture Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, to complete the copper-nickel mine that PolyMet has been developing in northeastern Minnesota, and the partnership hopes to eventually build a separate mine next door in an even larger ore body that Teck controls. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) FILE - A former iron ore processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, Minn., that would become part of a proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine, is pictured on Feb. 10, 2016. PolyMet Mining and Teck Resources finalized a joint venture Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, to complete the copper-nickel mine that PolyMet has been developing in northeastern Minnesota, and the partnership hopes to eventually build a separate mine next door in an even larger ore body that Teck controls. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)