Photos: Armed guards at future mine in northern Wisconsin spark huge controversy
Despite harsh criticism from two northern legislators and an outcry from anti-mining activists, a spokesman for Gogebic Taconite said armed, paramilitary-style guards will return after obtaining licenses and resume patrolling the site deep in the Penokee Range where the company wants to build a large open pit iron mine.
Mining company Gogebic Taconite hired armed, paramilitary-style guards from Arizona to patrol the site where it wants to build an open-pit iron mine in the Penokees of northern Wisconsin. They were removed after it was learned the firm was not licensed in Wisconsin.
Mining company Gogebic Taconite has hired armed, paramilitary-style guards to patrol the site where it wants to build an open-pit iron mine in the Penokees of northern Wisconsin.
Mining company Gogebic Taconite has hired armed, paramilitary-style guards to patrol the site where it wants to build an open-pit iron mine in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin.
Mining company Gogebic Taconite has hired armed, paramilitary-style guards to patrol the site where it wants to build an open-pit iron mine in the Penokees of northern Wisconsin.
Mining company Gogebic Taconite has hired armed, paramilitary-style guards to patrol the site where it wants to build an open-pit iron mine in the Penokees of northern Wisconsin.
A Bulletproof Securities guard took this photograph of a man who was sneaking through the rainy woods near a Gogebic Taconite drill site on Tuesday, said security company president Tom Parrella. The unidentified man laid himself down in a prone position for 30 minutes until the guard confronted him and he fled, Parrella said.
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A spokesman for Gogebic Taconite said Tuesday that paramilitary-style guards will continue to patrol the site of a future open pit iron mine.
Heavily-armed Bulletproof Securities guards will be back on the site as soon as possible, spokesman says
Men and women who rushed a drill site blocked a road to hinder police and threatened to return in greater numbers.
