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The lakes, rivers and streams of Minnesota are why many of us love living here. They are sources of clean drinking water and places where memories are made at resorts and campsites, in fishing boats and on skis.

Sulfide mining is a new form of mining for Minnesota, but could have a big impact on our prized lakes, rivers and streams, as well as leave the states taxpayers holding the bag for massive clean-up costs.

The impacts of sulfide mining are well known in the western United States, where mines have polluted lakes, rivers and streams, and mining companies have filed for bankruptcy and walked away from multi-million dollar clean-up operations.

Allowing sulfide mines that would require perpetual water treatment is too risky a gamble for our state. It is almost impossible to accurately predict how much money it will cost to treat polluted wastewater from mines, and it's just as difficult to make sure the necessary money is available to the state for the decades and decades of treatment.

Now, this potentially dangerous form of mining might come to Minnesota. Currently, mining companies are interested in mining a region of Minnesota's north country that stretches northeast from the town of Hoyt Lakes and up to the very edges of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. And there is the potential for sulfide mines to be located in other areas of Minnesota as well.

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