Transgenic Plants Accelerated Growth Industrial Security

	Subterra Gains Attention
		The Globe -- Arrived: 02/28/01
		SubTerra Underground Growth Center is drawing attention from some big national names.
	Bio-Tech Industry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
		National Public Radio -- Arrived: 02/20/01
		Peter Payette of Interlochen Public Radio reports on biotech companies' efforts to grow potentially toxic plants in controlled environments. One such place is an abandoned copper mine in Michigan, where plants are grown 200 feet underground.
	Company Growing Marijuana Underground
		Daily Mining Gazette, Houghton MI -- Arrived: 12/01/00
		An unusual $5.75 million contract recently awarded to the parent company of Subterra, LLC is good news for the underground agriculture operation located within the former White Pine, Copper Range mine.
	Mining Tobacco
		BioTech Magazine -- Arrived: 10/01/00
		SubTerra, in conjunction with Prairie Plant Systems of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has converted an underground mine into a sophisticated, biosecure growth chamber for production of transgenic biopharmaceuticals. It is the blending of agriculture, mining and pharmacy that creates this new opportunity.
	Anti-Cancer Plants Being Grown
		Associated Press -- Arrived: 07/22/00
		Tobacco plants are growing 200 feet below the earth's surface – in an abandoned copper mine converted into what is believed to be one of the first underground plant growth chambers in the United States.
	White Pine Mine Cultivates Tobacco for Canadian Labs
		Detroit Free Press -- Arrived: 07/21/00
		In an Upper Peninsula mine where workers once extracted copper, Canadian scientists are growing tobacco plants in hopes of discovering a medicine to fight bone marrow cancer.
	Biotech Firm Finds New Use for Copper Mine
		Biotechnology Reported -- Arrived: 06/21/00
		A small Saskatchewan biotechnology company has found a novel use for an abandoned copper mine in Michigan: growing tobacco plants that produce the building blocks of a life-saving drug for Health Canada.

SubTerra Underground Growth Center is drawing attention from some big national names.

Peter Payette of Interlochen Public Radio reports on biotech companies' efforts to grow potentially toxic plants in controlled environments. One such place is an abandoned copper mine in Michigan, where plants are grown 200 feet underground.

An unusual $5.75 million contract recently awarded to the parent company of Subterra, LLC is good news for the underground agriculture operation located within the former White Pine, Copper Range mine.

SubTerra, in conjunction with Prairie Plant Systems of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has converted an underground mine into a sophisticated, biosecure growth chamber for production of transgenic biopharmaceuticals. It is the blending of agriculture, mining and pharmacy that creates this new opportunity.

Tobacco plants are growing 200 feet below the earth's surface – in an abandoned copper mine converted into what is believed to be one of the first underground plant growth chambers in the United States.

In an Upper Peninsula mine where workers once extracted copper, Canadian scientists are growing tobacco plants in hopes of discovering a medicine to fight bone marrow cancer.

A small Saskatchewan biotechnology company has found a novel use for an abandoned copper mine in Michigan: growing tobacco plants that produce the building blocks of a life-saving drug for Health Canada.