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Nearby communities important to the Iron Range: Duluth (pop. 86,265) The fourth largest city in the state, is a destination for much of the ore shipped via the DM&IR railroad and loaded onto Lake freighters. A large part of the Iron Range is also included in the Duluth MN-WI MSA.
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 ...
Lake Superior Iron Ranges. The Vermilion Range exists between Tower, Minnesota and Ely, Minnesota, and contains significant deposits of iron ore. Together with the Mesabi, Gunflint, and Cuyuna ranges, these four constitute the Iron Ranges of northern Minnesota. While the Mesabi Range had iron ore close enough to the surface to enable pit mining ...
Chisholm is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,775 at the 2020 census. [3] The city has been called "The Heart of the Iron Range" due to its location in the middle of the Mesabi Iron Range.
Hibbing is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 16,214 at the 2020 census. [4] The city was built on mining the rich iron ore of the Mesabi Iron Range and still relies on that industrial activity today. At the edge of town is the world's largest open-pit iron mine, the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron ...
A tiny Canadian company is hoping Minnesota's Iron Range could be the next source of a globally sought-after element: helium. Far from simply giving lift to balloons, this noble gas has become an ...
Itasca County (/ aɪ ˈ t æ s k ə / eye-TASS-kə) [2] is a county located in the Iron Range region of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,014. [3] Its county seat is Grand Rapids. [4]
Cuyuna iron-ore district (1918) The Cuyuna Range is an inactive iron range to the southwest of the Mesabi Range, largely within Crow Wing County, Minnesota. It lies along a 68-mile-long (109 km) line between Brainerd, Minnesota, and Aitkin, Minnesota. The width ranges from 1 to 10 miles (1.6 to 16 km). [1]