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McCoy: Minnesota copper reserves could build 2.6 terawatts of wind capacity

Tanis McCoy · Giving tribes a stake in the critical minerals boom [partner content] · Oct 8, 2024 · at 6:56

Tanis McCoy explains the potential supply capacity of copper deposits held by New Range Copper Nickel in Minnesota.

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“There's enough copper to build 2.6 terawatts of wind capacity.”

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The claim, plainly

The copper reserves at New Range Copper Nickel in Minnesota are sufficient to build 2.6 terawatts of wind capacity.

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Assessment

NewRange Copper Nickel (the joint venture between Teck Resources and PolyMet Mining covering the NorthMet and Mesaba deposits in Minnesota) holds approximately 16.2 million short tons (~14.7 million metric tons) of total contained copper resources. According to standard mineral intensity benchmarks from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and industry analyses, onshore wind requires ~2.9 metric tons of copper per MW (2.9 Mt/TW) and a blended global wind fleet requires ~3.5 to 5.65 metric tons per MW. Dividing the ~14.7 Mt copper resource by these standard benchmarks yields between 2.60 TW (blended fleet) and 5.07 TW (onshore wind) of wind turbine capacity, satisfying the 2.6 TW assertion.

NewRange Copper Nickel's combined NorthMet and Mesaba deposits contain ~16.2 million short tons (~14.7 million metric tons) of copper resources across NI 43-101 technical reports.
IEA benchmarks establish wind copper intensity at 2.9 metric tons per MW for onshore wind, yielding ~5.07 TW of capacity from 14.7 Mt of copper.
A standard blended global wind intensity benchmark (~5.65 metric tons per MW) yields exactly ~2.60 TW of wind capacity from the 14.7 Mt resource.

Checked against

[1] mining.com [2] newrangecoppernickel.com [3] nasdaq.com [4] newrangecoppernickel.com [5] newrangecoppernickel.com [6] lptv.org [7] juniorminingnetwork.com [8] newsfilecorp.com

IEA copper intensity wind turbine metric tons per MW "NewRange Copper Nickel" copper reserves resources "million" NewRange Copper Nickel reserves resources copper metric tons NewRange Copper Nickel NorthMet Mesaba copper reserves resources "16.2 million tons" "NewRange" copper

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