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"Mining vs non-mining" is a disingenuous construct. Most people who are concerned about effects of copper-nickel mining with good reasons are not against mining as we grew up with and many of our families worked in the mines. The view that only copper-nickel mining, putting all the eggs in one basket, can "save" the Range economy and/or bring back the boom times is like wishing to find that pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. It's just not that cut and dried as Marshall has pointed out. Nothing ever is.
It's interesting that what isn't mentioned here about the economy is the gigantic elephant in the room, the pandemic. The economy here on the Range nor in entire US won't recover until the pandemic is under control and even then, economy will take a long time to get up to speed.
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