The Mesabi Iron Range’s history as a mining district begins well before ore was unearthed. More than two billion years ago, an era of mountain building known as the Algoman orogeny occurred.

[imgbelt img=mine2.jpg]Minnesota’s Iron Range helped create modern America by providing the ore that became the nation’s steel. With most of the jobs of that era long gone, can this culturally ...

In Minnesota, magnetite ore is mined mainly in the Mesabi Range, one of the four ranges that make up the state's Iron Range. Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) is a major player in the magnetite ore ...

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So far, most Range lawmakers - with ... there's no need for any new taconite iron ore production for the domestic steel industry. Goncalves claims that, if Mesabi Metallics opens, it will simply ...

Minnesota's Mesabi Range features large deposits of iron ore and taconite. It also has rich deposits of copper, nickel, platinum and other precious metals (called strategic metals). There are ...

A bidding war has erupted as the bankruptcy of a stalled ore operation in Minnesota’s Iron Range with three contenders offering to revive it. Virginia entrepreneur Tom Clarke is leading a group ...

Mesabi Trust, a New York-based royal trust involved in the Minnesota iron ore mining business ... at the eastern end of the Mesabi Iron Range, in Minnesota. Northshore Mining Corporation, a ...