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.
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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.