Once Minnesota's deepest mine, Soudan complex is now a
The Lake Vermilion–Soudan Underground Mine State Park occupies over four thousand acres in the far northeast corner of Minnesota. The site contains a historic …
Iron Ranges – Mine Pits : Minnesota Natural Resource Atlas
Tags: iron mining, mines, ore. This data layer indicates the location of historic and active mine pits associated with iron mines in the Vermilion, Mesabi, and Cuyuna Iron …
Lake Vermilion
Underground Mine Tour: Tour Minnesota's first iron mine. Don a hardhat and journey 2,341 feet via a cage to the 27th level, ride the rails back into the mine and listen to the stories of mining a century ago. ... They will also discover the tools that the miners used in their exploration for the iron ore. It will involve walking on uneven ...
Hill Annex Mine In Minnesota Is A Must-See Abandoned Iron Mine
Some, like the enormous Hull-Rust-Mahoning mine, are still operating today. Others are long abandoned. Among Minnesota's abandoned mines, there's an iron mine on the Iron Range that you can still visit today. Hill Annex Mine is a hundred-year-old abandoned-mine-turned-state-park that you can visit to learn about the state's mining …
Underground tours resume at Minnesota's oldest iron mine
Hope you're not afraid of the dark or of heights because we're about to plunge more than 2,300 feet underground into Minnesota's oldest iron mine. The state provides most of America's iron ore.
The five largest iron ore mines in US
The Keetac Mine, owned by United States Steel, is a surface mine located in Minnesota. The mine produced an estimated 5.4 mtpa of iron ore in 2023. The mine will operate until 2036. Buy the profile here. 5. United Taconite Mine. Owned by Cleveland-Cliffs, the United Taconite Mine is a surface mine located in Minnesota.
Minnesota state park summer tours now taking reservations …
Minnesota has been a powerhouse in the production of iron ore starting with the state's first iron ore mine, the Soudan Mine, which opened in 1882 and operated until 1962. Underground mine tours will return in May after being closed the last two years due to an extensive restoration project. The mine shaft restoration was completed in ...
State minerals leases | Minnesota DNR
Taconite/Iron Ore. Background: Most of the leases are for the mining of taconite, a lower grade iron ore. Historically, the State of Minnesota has been leasing its iron ore and taconite resources since the 1890s. All leases must be approved by the State Executive Council.. Statutes: The leasing of state-owned lands and interests in lands for govern …
Closed 2 years for upgrades, famed Soudan Underground Mine …
The Soudan Underground Mine, now part of the Lake Vermilion/Soudan Underground Mine State Park, began operations in 1882 and produced massive amounts of high-grade iron ore until it closed in 1962.
Soudan Underground Mine
Never as big as the Mesabi Range to the southwest, the Vermilion Range and its mines were steady producers of iron ore over many decades. The Soudan Mine peaked in 1892 at 568,471 tons of iron ore shipped. Later, once it was clear that the Soudan Mine would make money, the Minnesota Iron Company was bought by a group of New York …
Interactive map of underground mines in Minnesota
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources provides an interactive map of underground mines in Minnesota. The map provides detailed …
The Complete Visitor's Guide to Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine …
Read on to learn about Minnesota's next-generation state park and its first iron ore mine! Brief History of the State Park. ... A year later, the US Steel Corporation donated the mine and 1,200 acres of the land to Minnesota. It then became Soudan Underground Mine State Park. Park Merging. In 2010, about 3,000 acres of Lake …
Mining on the Iron Range | Minnesota Digital Library
Minnesota's Iron Range is located in the state's far northeastern corner and includes the following counties: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and Saint Louis. Iron mines were generally of two types: open pit and underground. The Iron Range includes three major iron ore deposits: Mesabi Range, Vermilion Range, and the Cuyuna Range.
Soudan Mine, Tower | MNopedia
The Soudan Mine, which opened in 1884, is located at the western edge of the Vermilion Range, about two miles northeast of Tower. It was the first iron mine in the state, and its first ore shipment in the summer of 1884 marked the …
Cuyuna Iron Range | MNopedia
The Cuyuna Iron Range is a former North American iron-mining district about ninety miles west of Duluth in central Minnesota. Iron mining in the district, the furthest south and west of Minnesota's iron ranges, began in 1907. During World War I and World War II, the district mined manganese-rich iron ores to harden the steel used in wartime production.
Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Adventure abounds at Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park! Tour the historic underground mine, take a boat out or cast a line on Lake Vermilion, or hike through acres of old growth pine forest. The addition of nearly 3,000 acres and five miles of Lake Vermilion shoreline in 2010 adds even more opportunities to experience the …
What did the topography of the Iron Range look like before …
By 1892, when large-scale mining started scooping that two-billion-year-old iron out of the ground, the natural features of northern Minnesota looked much as they do today.
Soudan Underground Mine
Minnesota's first iron ore mine-the Soudan Mine-opened in 1882. Operations went underground by 1892 since the ore body continued deep into the ground. The mine's value was in the special kind of ore it produced. The ore's high oxygen content was used to make high-quality steel in open-hearth furnaces.
A multilingual army of immigrants helped build the Iron …
One of the Iron Range's top tourist attractions is the Soudan Underground Mine, which is Minnesota's oldest mine and once boasted the best quality iron ore. It recently reopened after $9.3 million ...
Underground mine mapping – Maps | Minnesota DNR
Since underground mines cannot be seen, utilizing the existing underground maps is the only practical way of mapping them. ... Arcelor Mittal, Eveleth Fee Office, Great Northern Iron Ore Properties, Meriden Engineering, RGGS, Department of Interior Office of Surface Mining, and the public. ... The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources makes ...
Iron Ranges – Mine Pits : Minnesota Natural Resource Atlas
It was developed by the Natural Resources Research Institute by compiling data from multiple sources. It provides the locations of all known historic and active open pit iron mines in Northeastern and North Central Minnesota. Many of the historic open pit mines have naturally filled with water and have been converted into recreation facilities.
Interactive map of mineral resources and mines …
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Resources Data System catalogs information about mineral resources around the United States and the world. Using the map tool, users can zoom in to obtain reports and …
Underground mine mapping project | Minnesota DNR
The Underground Mine Mapping project was originally funded in 2006 by the Central Iron Range Sanitary Sewer District. ... CIRSSD secured funding for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to research the underground mines within this area. ... U.S. Steel Keewatin Taconite, U.S. Steel Minntac, Eveleth Fee Office, Great Northern Iron Ore ...
Lake Vermilion
Underground Mine Tour: Tour Minnesota's first iron mine. Don a hardhat and journey 2,341 feet via a cage to the 27th level, ride the rails back into the mine and listen to the …
Underground tours resume at Minnesota's oldest iron mine
Hope you're not afraid of the dark or of heights because we're about to plunge more than 2,300 feet underground into Minnesota's oldest iron mine. The …
Minnesota mining history | Minnesota DNR
Iron Ore. Minnesota's iron ore was actually discovered while miners were on their way to seek gold. Since their aim was gold, the iron was ignored. As it turned out, the iron would become more valuable to northern Minnesota than the gold. ... Forty-one miners drowned in the Milford mine when a nearby lake broke through the underground mine ...
Iron Mining Process
From blasting to crushing to separation – more than 85% of the iron mined in the United States is mined in northeastern Minnesota to make our nation's steel. Blasting Taconite is a very hard rock. Using explosives, the taconite is blasted into small pieces. Transportation The taconite pieces are scooped up by electric shovels. Each...
Iron Ore Facilities :: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CLF)
The United Taconite mine is located on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range in and around the city of Eveleth, Minnesota. The taconite is mined and then transported approximately 10 miles by rail to its processing facility in Forbes, Minnesota. ... With its completion, Northshore Mining is the first U.S.-based iron ore processing facility to produce ...
Vermilion Iron Range | MNopedia
The Vermilion Range, with its distinctive hard and high-grade iron ore deposits, looms large in the history of the mining industry in Minnesota. It was the first range to open (1884) and also the first to cease commercial mining operations (1967) due to changes in the steel-making process and the rise of cheaper-to-produce taconite on …
Cuyuna Range Underground Mines : Minnesota Natural …
This data layer indicates the locations of underground mines in the Cuyuna Range. It was developed by the Natural Resources Research Institute. ... drifts and mined extents digitized from found and geo-rectified surface and level maps of the Cuyuna Range underground natural iron ore mines (not all levels of the Armour No. 1, Armour No. 2, and ...