Sulfide mining explained

Is sulfide mining really safe? This short video may help you decide whether it's right or not for your community.

Research on hard rock and metallic sulfide mining

Polluting The Future

HOW MINING COMPANIES ARE CONTAMINATING OUR NATION’S WATERS IN PERPETUITY, 2013, Earthworks.org  (Case studies of current and closed mines requiring perpetual water treatment for acid mine drainage)

Acid Mine Drainage and Effects on Fish Health and Ecology: A Review

Jennings, S.R., Neuman, D.R. and Blicker, P.S., 2008. “Acid Mine Drainage and Effects on Fish Health and Ecology: A Review”. Reclamation Research Group Publication, Bozeman, MT.

Watershed Contamination from Metal and Uranium Mining

United States Geological Survey website on current watershed research with extensive bibliography 

of scientific papers and research

U.S. Copper Porphyry Mines

The track record of  water quality impacts resulting from pipeline spills, tailings failures  and water collection and treatment failures.
Gestring, Bonnie, EARTHWORKS, 2012

The Risk, Public Liability, & Economics of Tailings Storage Facility Failures

Bowker, Lindsay Newman & Chambers, PhD., David M.,  Center for Science in Public Participation, 2012

Sulfide Mining Regulation In The Great Lakes Region

A Comparative Analysis of Sulfide Mining Regulation in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario
March 2012, National Wildlife Federation
(Note  that this study was published prior to WI 2017 Act 134 that deregulated  numerous aspects of metallic mining law including repeal of the Prove  It First (“moratorium”) law.)

Research on metallic sulfide mining:

Treaty rights and Native American cultural issues

Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, 2016. Metallic Mineral Mining: The Process & the Price.

Research on mining economics and economic modeling

Will Sulfide Mines Bring Employment and Economic Benefits to Northern Minnesota?
MiningTruth.org, 2012

The Economic Role of Metal Mining in Minnesota: Past, Present, and Future

Power, Thomas Michael, University of Montana Economics Dept., 2007

The use and abuse of economic modelling in Australia
Denniss Ph.D., Richard, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute, 2012

Assessing the Quality of Economic Impact Models
Business Central, 2008

Research on the Flambeau mine

Report on Groundwater and Surface Water Contamination at the Flambeau Mine

Chambers, Ph.D., David M. and Zamzow, Ph.D., Kendra, Center for Science in Public Participation, 2009

SURFACE WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE FLAMBEAU MINE SITE
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 2012
(Note  that this paper is the supporting document for the DNR recommendation  to EPA that Stream C be designated as impaired. The EPA concurred and  designated Stream C as impaired due to zinc and copper pollution in  2012.  The DNR no longer has this paper archived online.)
 

Comparison  of Predicted and Actual Water Quality at Hardrock Mines: The  reliability of predictions in Environmental Impact Statements (case studies of twenty-five U.S. mines including the Flambeau mine)
Kuipers, J.R., Maest, A.S., MacHardy, K.A., and Lawson, G., 2006
 

Flambeau Mine: Water Contamination and Selective “Alternative Facts”
Robert E. Moran, Ph.D., Michael-Moran Associates LLC, 2017