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  2. Mountain Iron Mine - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Iron Mine is a former mine in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, United States. Opened in 1892, it was the first mine on the Mesabi Range , which has proved to be the largest iron ore deposit ever discovered in the United States.

  3. Iron Mountain Mine - Wikipedia

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    Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California, US. Geologically classified as a "massive sulfide ore deposit", the site was mined for iron , silver , gold , copper , zinc , quartz , and pyrite intermittently from the 1860s until 1963.

  4. Mountain Iron, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Iron is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States, in the heart of the Mesabi Range. The population was 2,878 at the 2020 census. [3] U.S. Highway 169 serves as a main route in Mountain Iron. The city's motto is "Taconite Capital of the World". The local mine, Minntac, is owned by the United States Steel Corporation (U.S ...

  5. Mesabi Range - Wikipedia

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    Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mesabi Range, 2010. The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district and mountain range in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore. It is the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota. First described in ...

  6. Seven Iron Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Iron Men, also known as the Merritt brothers, were iron-ore pioneers in the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota and the creation of the city that is now known as Mountain Iron. [1] In the late 1800s, the Merritt family founded the largest iron mine in the world and initiated the consolidation of the American railway system into ...

  7. List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    This mine is the largest open pit iron mine in the world. Located in the Mesabi Range, it supplied as much as one-fourth of all the iron ore mined in the United States during its peak production years of World War I and World War II. This area of the Mesabi Range was explored in 1893–1894, shortly after the Mountain Iron mine was established ...

  8. List of iron mines - Wikipedia

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    Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum; Dorney Road Landfill; Franklin Furnace; Hibernia mines; Hill-Annex Mine State Park; Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine; The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York; Iron Mountain (Utah) Iron Mountain District; Iron Mountain Mine; Jackson Mine; Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park; Lyon Mountain, New York

  9. Iron Range - Wikipedia

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    Erie Mining Company previously mined ore and testing to mine new minerals is ongoing. Keewatin (pop. 1,068) is between Nashwauk and Hibbing. It is home to U.S. Steel's KeeTac taconite mining and processing plant. Kinney (pop. 169) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range, between Buhl and Mountain Iron.