A hearing is scheduled to be held Monday on a key permit for a project that would be the first copper nickel mine in Minnesota.

It’s known as the NorthMet project, by mining company PolyMet. The mine would be located in the headwaters of the St. Louis River, and the permit to mine calls for the company to create a dam that would store waste rock left behind after processing out metals.

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