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Erie Mining Company History Project Team, Taconite, New Life for Minnesota's Iron Range: The History of Erie Mining Company. Duluth: St. Louis County Historical Society, 2019. Manuel, Jeffrey T., "Mr. Taconite: Edward W. Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore, 1913–1955," Technology and Culture, 54 (April 2013), 317–45.
Taconite was established in 1907 and is one of several whistlestop cities located on Highway 169 collectively known as 'Range Cities'. These cities were branded as such when they sprang up in parallel with the nearby iron mining operations that began in Coleraine and headed in a northeasterly direction.
The Minnesota Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation (IRRRB) is an economic development agency of the State of Minnesota, designed to advance growth on Minnesota's Iron Range. Founded in 1941, the board is tasked with using proceeds from taconite mining to spur broader development in the region. [ 1 ]
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It is home to U.S. Steel's KeeTac taconite mining and processing plant. Kinney (pop. 169) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range, between Buhl and Mountain Iron. Mountain Iron (pop. 2,869) is home to Minntac, the world's largest taconite processing plant. Nashwauk (pop. 983) is a small town between Grand Rapids and Hibbing, 4 miles from ...
The St. Clair backing into the iron ore loading dock at Silver Bay, Minnesota, to take on taconite pellets. Minnesota provides the great bulk of the iron ore mined in the US. Iron ore comes from seven open-pit mines, and two tailings reclamation operations, one in St. Louis County, and one in Itasca County.
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The passage of the amendment accelerated the creation of the taconite mining industry in Northern Minnesota. The Eveleth Taconite Company was formed in 1964 and on April 8, 1966, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald took on the first load of Eveleth taconite pellets, about 23,000 long tons (23,000 t; 26,000 short tons). The taconite era on the Missabe had ...