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Lake Superior Iron Ranges The Mesabi Range (upper center) is west of Lake Superior, north of Duluth, Minnesota, and far north of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Nearby towns include Grand Rapids, Hibbing and Virginia. Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mesabi Range, 2010
The Iron Range is collectively or individually a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada. Much of the ore-bearing region lies alongside the range of granite hills formed by the Giants Range batholith . [ 1 ]
Lake Superior Iron Ranges Gogebic Range Geology. The Gogebic Range is an elongated area of iron ore deposits located within a range of hills in northern Michigan and Wisconsin just south of Lake Superior. It extends from Lake Namakagon in Wisconsin eastward to Lake Gogebic in Michigan, or almost 80 miles.
The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine in Negaunee, Michigan, extracting resources from the Marquette Iron Range.The first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, [3] Jackson Mine was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1]
The Copperwood Mine, which is slated to become the closest metallic mine to Lake Superior to date, will sit just west of the state park. Around 500,000 people visit the state park each year.
The only recently operating iron mine in the US outside the Lake Superior area was the Iron Mountain mine, formerly called the Comstock-Mountain Lion mine, west of Cedar City, in Iron County, Utah. The mine shut down in October 2014. [6] Operated by CML Metals, Inc. the mine produced ore with 54% iron.
At that time, the island was approximately 50 m 2 (540 sq ft) in size and only 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) above the waters of Lake Superior. In 1870, the site was developed by Alexander H. Sibley 's Silver Islet Mining Company which built wooden breakwaters around the island to hold back the lake's waves and increased the island's area ...
The Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines developed the underground Burt Mine (William Olcott, manager) and The Sellers Ore Co (C.H. Munger) the underground Sellers Mine. William C. Agnew directed stripping and development of the open-pit Mahoning Mine for the Mahoning Ore Company. All three mines began shipping in 1895, and with development of ...