"Anderson points to research from the DNR that relates a spike in sulfates in the St. Louis River at the point where it passes south of the mines, collecting water from tributaries near the mines. Said Anderson, “Above the Partridge River, the river’s choked with wild rice and, of course, flocks of ducks that go with it. When you get to the Partridge River … the end of wild rice. That’s when the first mining-impacted water hits the St. Louis River.”"
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