Challenging China, Zinc Production Returns to US, Revives New York Mining TownChallenging China, Zinc Production Returns to US, Revives New York Mining Town
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Challenging China, Zinc Production Returns to US, Revives New York Mining Town

A century-old mine and mill in rural St. Lawrence County will be producing concentrates for U.S. manufacturers—now totally reliant on imports—by year’s end.
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By John Haughey
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FOWLER, N.Y.—A fierce wind is slinging sleet and forcing 30-foot hemlocks to genuflect in its gusts this gray, cold November morning, but Joel Rheault is enjoying a warm and fuzzy moment atop a dynamited blast bowl.

Below, a bulldozer is churning through newly dredged soil and shoving boulders aside in an open pit burrowed into the sandy, finely ground waste tailings from the nearby zinc mine.

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