Rosemount Council Approves UMore Mining Operation
After numerous public meetings, Rosemount City Council approves mining permit on 5-0 vote.
Like us on Facebook | Get our newsletter | Follow us on Twitter | Start a blog After almost one and a half hours of discussion, and more than two years of planning and public input, the Rosemount City Council on Tuesday approved the development of a large-scale mining operation within the city’s boundaries. It wasn’t an easy decision for the city, with staff and council members sifting through hundreds of pages of documents and reports as the council analyzed the benefits of allowing Dakota Aggregates, a partnership of Cemstone Products Company and Ames Construction, to develop a mining operation at the University of Minnesota-owned UMore Park site. “This is something that is going to make an impact 30 years, 40 years down the road,” …
