Category: Minnesota
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MINNESOTA DISCOVERY CENTER
Dramatic glass and steel museum perched on open pit iron mine. Relates iron mining history through lifelike displays and audio, including living history tapes. Click here for the website of the Minnesota Discovery Center
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SOUDAN UNDERGROUND MINE STATE PARK (SOUDAN, MINNESOTA)
“Minnesota”s oldest iron ore mine, where visitors can learn about how mining shaped the history and culture of the Iron Range. Explore the dry house, drill shop, crusher house and engine house, and take the boardwalk past one of the deepest open mine pits.” Click Here for More Information on Soudan Underground Mine State Park…
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MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF MINING (CHISHOLM, MINNESOTA)
“As a visitor to The Minnesota Museum of Mining, you will have the rare opportunity to climb aboard historic equipment used to mine the Mesabi Range”s rich iron ore. Your experience will begin at the very unique stone castle, constructed in 1933. Browse the Gift Shop, and view the first of many displays of mining…
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HULL RUST MAHONING MINE VIEW (HIBBING, MINNESOTA)
“View the biggest operating open pit iron ore mine in the world, more than three miles long, two miles wide and 535 feet deep. This man-made “Grand Canyon of the North” was the first strip mine on the Mesabi Iron Range. The amazing view continues to grow as the Hibbing Taconite Company Mine expands its…