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Coaster Brook Trout is Potential Roadblock to MineSeveral articles have emerged over the last few days relating to the coaster brook trout and the proposed Kennecott Eagle mine north of Marquette because the Sierra Club and the Huron Mountain Club have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add the coaster to the federal endangered list. The private Huron Mountain Club owns the land on both banks of the stretch of the river accessible to coasters.The Mining Journal reports that the mine is designed to extract an ore body 1,000 feet directly below the headwaters of the Salmon Trout River. Eagle Project Manager Jon Cherry, the top of the ore body is located 200 feet below the surface soil, which holds a stretch of the Salmon Trout headwaters. Cherry contends that separating the Salmon Trout and the ore body is a layer of 70 feet of impermeable clay, glacial till and surface soil above a 130-foot cap of bedrock. "I'm confident that this project will not have any impacts to the coaster brook trout whether they're listed or not," Cherry said.
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