BIG BAY -- At his camp on the northern edge of the Yellow Dog Plains in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Rico Torreano can hear tapping woodpeckers, a gurgling spring and even the occasional wolf howl ...

Michigan Revokes Approval of Sulfide Mine Kennecott Minerals Co. wants to construct a sulfide mine on land it owns on the Yellow Dog Plains in Marquette County, Mich.

Ore trucks resumed hauling on July 8 after a “fall of ground” in the main ramp to the lower ore body at Eagle Mine, a nickel and copper mine under the Yellow Dog Plains near Marquette that is ...

BIG BAY, Mich. — Deep in the rugged hills of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, ... Kennecott Minerals Co. will drill an underground mine in a desolate highland known as the Yellow Dog Plains.

Upended by a decade of civic protest over opening the Eagle Mine in the ecologically sensitive Yellow Dog Plains, the London-based mining company, which operates all over the world, wanted to try ...

BIG BAY, Mich. – BIG BAY, Mich. (AP) — For a month, a small group of American Indians and environmental activists occupied an isolated patch of woods in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where the ...

A small group of protesters stay put after being ordered to leave the entrance of a planned nickel mine in the Upper Peninsula, near what an American Indian tribe considers sacred ground.

TRAVERSE CITY (AP) – Biking enthusiast Michael Robold recoils at the idea of a copper and nickel mine amid the woods and rivers of the Yellow Dog Plains. “It would be a travesty!” he exclaimed during ...

TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — Biking enthusiast Michael Robold recoils at the idea of a copper and nickel mine amid the woods and rivers of the Yellow Dog Plains. “It would be a travesty!”… ...

Part of Yellow Dog Plains, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Share. Tweet. Copy Link. Email Print. Activists say ... the Michigan issue has largely been cast as a matter of jobs versus the environment.

TRAVERSE CITY -- Biking enthusiast Michael Robold recoils at the idea of a copper and nickel mine amid the woods and rivers of the Yellow Dog Plains. "It would be a travesty!" he exclaimed during ...