House Votes to Overturn Minnesota Mining Ban, Sending Bill to Senate

Reversing the ban will protect jobs and strengthen national security, Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) said.

Crushed waste rock from processing taconite rises above a street lined with trees in Eveleth, Minn., in this file photo. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

The House of Representatives on Jan. 21 approved overturning a 20-year ban on mining in a national forest in Minnesota that was implemented under President Joe Biden.

The Senate will now decide on the measure. If the upper chamber also passes the bill, it will head to the desk of President Donald Trump, who said on the campaign trail that he wanted to overturn the ban on mining in the Superior National Forest.