Redeploying these valuable taconite plant assets affords a rare opportunity to sharply reduce project development costs while creating new employment opportunities in an area still recovering from the traumatic LTV plant closure.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual

The EDC is going to build the building. All of the development costs will be repaid by Devon. There are incentives that will be paid to Devon in the future, but they're separate from costs of developing the property.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare, señor. That’s rare and valuable.”

— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories 

Trees are one of our most valuable assets.

This project is among the very few worldwide that is poised to rapidly come on-line to help meet burgeoning global demand for base and precious metals that we all need and use every day.