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It took a decade and over $1 million, but the 97-year-old Bruce Mine Headframe is now the centerpiece of a park on the Mesabi Trail. This is Northlandia: a place to bring your curiosity, because you ...

It's March, the month Mesabi Metallics was to supposed to rev up construction at a massive but half-built $2.6 billion taconite plant in Nashwauk. But it has been quiet on the Iron Range site — too ...

Hundreds of people stood in a long line that snaked outside the offices of Mesabi Metallics in Nashwauk last week, eagerly awaiting the chance to get an up-close look at the largest mining trucks ever ...

NASHWAUK, Minnesota — An industrial resurrection seems afoot at a long-promising but snakebitten $2 billion-plus taconite project. On a crisp fall morning, a construction site in this Iron Range city ...

NASHWAUK, MINN. – Colossal rust-red barn walls rise out of the gravel and pine forest in this northern Minnesota town. A welder’s torch spits blue sparks. After more than two decades of sometimes ...

When it comes to winter sports you probably think hockey, skiing, maybe curling. But with the warm temperatures we’ve experienced this winter, some spring sports are already getting prepared. Mesabi ...

VIRGINIA, Minn. — While 2009 saw a downturn in employment and production in Minnesota's iron mining industry, the industry recorded some positive safety milestones, including zero mining fatalities on ...

CHISHOLM — In a lot of cities, the local beautification association would look at a hulking, weather-worn piece of mining equipment that's been unused for decades and try to figure out how to get rid ...