May 14, 2021
A D.C. federal judge will not revisit his ruling that the U.S. Department of the Interior lawfully reinstated mining leases in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, saying communications from members of Congress that became public after the ruling would not have turned the tide in the dispute.
March 18, 2020
The U.S. Department of the Interior did not overstep its authority when it reinstated an Antofagasta PLC subsidiary's mining leases in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a D.C. federal judge has ruled, deciding that the government could take a mulligan on its first decision to deny them.
June 21, 2018
The U.S. Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Land Management were hit with a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the reinstatement of two expired mining leases in the Superior National Forest near a popular Minnesota wilderness area.