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Eagle Mine
Mine in Marquette County, MichiganWikipedia
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Eagle Mine".
Sep 12, 2026
Michael PopokHOST
It's in the Upper Michigan Peninsula.
Michael PopokHOST
It is the Eagle Mine.
Michael PopokHOST
It produces 4.5% of what we need for nickel, just 10,000 metric tons, and that's where it ends.
Michael PopokHOST
We don't have an infrastructure of smelting and melting around that nickel in America.
Michael PopokHOST
It's in the Upper Michigan Peninsula.
Michael PopokHOST
It is the Eagle Mine.
Michael PopokHOST
It produces 4.5% of what we need for nickel.
Michael PopokHOST
just 10,000 metric tons, and that's where it ends.
Adrian VilacaHOST
Also from the album Dynamite Honey, we talked to Tyler about the song Nickel and Dimed.
Tyler DettloffGUEST
It's all about the Eagle Mine, which is in Big Bay, Michigan, kinda northwest of Marquette, and, uh, it's operational but at the time that I was living in Marquette, it was being constructed, and there was a lot of resistance to its construction.
Tyler DettloffGUEST
Uh, there was actually an encampment that was, uh, resisting its construction and, uh, kicked out.
Tyler DettloffGUEST
Another, uh, Anishinaabe-led resistance movement.