Reserve Mining Legal Case records
Scope and Contents
The collection contains legal correspondence, testimony, briefs, transcripts, reports, and exhibits dealing with the various legal trials.
Dates
- 1972-1979
Creator
- Reserve Mining Legal Case (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
The Reserve Mining Legal Case deals with the environmental dispute with Reserve Mining Company of Silver Bay, Minnesota, over the Company's policy of dumping taconite tailings into Lake Superior.
Tailings from taconite mining were originally thought to be harmless. By the early 1970s there were complaints that the taconite sediment was killing fish and affecting the quality of Lake Superior as a fresh water source for Duluth and other communities on the north shore of the lake. Environmental organizations, scientists, and lawyers made the case that the tailings not only polluted Lake Superior, but that they contained cummingtonite-grunerite. This substance is found in asbestos, a known cancer-causing agent.
Extent
11.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains legal correspondence, testimony, briefs, transcripts, reports, and exhibits dealing with the various legal trials.
Physical Location
This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526.
General
This collection is owned by the Minnesota Historical Society, but is housed at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives.
- Correspondence Subject Source: Local sources
- Drinking water Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Environmental protection Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Environmentalists Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lake Superior Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lawsuits Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pollution Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Reports Subject Source: Local sources
- Reserve Mining Company
- Reserve Mining Company--Trials, litigation, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Save Lake Superior Association
- Silver Bay (Minn.) Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Taconite industry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Taconite plant tailings Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Taconite--Environmental aspects--Lake Superior Subject Source: Local sources
- Transcriptions Subject Source: Local sources
- Water--Pollution Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Reserve Mining Legal Case records
- Author
- Finding Aid Authors: Staff.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Collecting Area Details
Contact The University of Minnesota Duluth Archives and Special Collections Collecting Area
Kathryn A. Martin Library
University of Minnesota Duluth
416 Library Drive
Duluth MN 55812-3001
(218) 726-8526
libarchives@d.umn.edu
