EDITOR’S NOTE: The Highway 53 Relocation Project is scheduled to be completed on Aug. 15, three months ahead of schedule. More...

EVELETH – They tell me it’s the largest business located north of Cotton and south of the railroad tracks that cross Highway 53 south of the Eveleth and Makinen areas. More...

DULUTH – The Natural Resources Research Institute announced Thursday the completion of a technical report that shows pilot-scale success at producing high quality titanium dioxide from an ilmenite deposit near Hoyt Lakes.  More...

NASHWAUK – Nashwauk Mayor Ben DeNucci says that the city was pleasantly surprised by the winning bid put forth by Chippewa Capital Partner’s, LLC to take over the assets of the now-defunct Essar project.  “ERP (Chippewa) kept p More...

Komatsu America Corp., a subsidiary of Komatsu Ltd., has completed its acquisition of Joy Global Inc., a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, it was announced in April.  More...

A new study on the economic realities of mining and tourism jobs finds they both have value and can co-exist. Praxis Strategy Group, however, found that mining jobs remain the cornerstone of northeastern Minnesota’s economy.  More...

Mars Supply has had a long relationship with the iron mining industry in Minnesota.  “We started out providing pick axes and shovels,” said Bruce Mars, the fourth generation in the family-owned business. More...

Oliver Mining Company—Eveleth District— employees who were issued a service medal as of April 1, 1926 (listed by name, total service and occupation).   More...

BUHL – Just as mining is a big deal on the Iron Range, the equipment used for mining is a big deal too. Literally BIG, I mean.  More...

Most of us have been there: the moving van is stacked floor to ceiling with boxes and items comprising almost everything you own. More...

DULUTH – GPM, Inc. was founded in 1978 in Duluth and is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the GPM-Eliminator™ line of horizontal and submersible pumps. More...

The Department of Natural Resources is initiating the sale of leases for state-owned metallic minerals. Areas offered for lease are in Beltrami, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and St. Louis counties and total 195,324 acres. More...

ELY – Minnesota Miners is a non-profit, pro-mining group on Facebook. We were created to support and defend miners and mining in Minnesota and across America.  More...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is accepting public comments through June 14 on an environmental assessment worksheet for the Hawkes Company Peat Mining Mercil Site project.  More...

DULUTH – Ninety-three percent of Minnesotans believe the state should continue to mine iron ore, according to results from the 2016 Minnesota State Survey.  More...

Minnesota is the largest producer of iron ore and taconite in the United States. More...

VIRGINIA – Kirscher Transport has been doing heavy hauling in Virginia for over 60 years. The company was started by Dale Kirscher in 1954. More...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The accompanying introduction, photos and historical table on Cliffs Natural Resources, Inc. were provided courtesy of the company. More...

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (CLF) on reported fourth-quarter 2016 consolidated revenues of $754 million, an increase of 58 percent from the prior year's fourth-quarter revenues of $476 million. More...

Job growth remains a top concern among Minnesotans—particularly those living in Greater Minnesota—as shown in the findings of the Blandin Foundation’s 2016 Rural Pulse survey. More...

NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA – The federal withdrawal land-grab threatens future jobs in our region and places our way of life at risk. As citizens of northeastern Minnesota, we all need to take action and make our voices heard.  More...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We thought it would be fun to profile Duluth broadcast journalist Renee Passal, an Iron Range native, for this week’s Mining Edition. Renee has been reporting for ABC affiliate WDIO in Duluth since April of 2005. More...

DULUTH – The 2016 Mining Tax Guide was released by the Minnesota Department of Revenue earlier this month.  According to the guide, Minnesota’s iron mining industry contributed $106,987,271 to local communities in production tax, bas More...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In early 2014, a team of former Erie Mining Company/LTV Mining employees, including Ron Hein, Dan DeVaney, Jim Scott, Doug Buell, Jim Westbrook, Elroy Rafferty, Tom Michels, Tom and Lynn Niemi, and Mike Sterk, began meeting month More...

I wrote my MBA thesis in 1982 entitled "The Social Responsibility of Mining Companies" at a time when mines were greatly maligned in spite of making huge advances in environmental stewardship, corporate caring, and changes in the way they did busines More...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The information below is from an old document in the possession of Ed Roskoski. – Cindy Kujala, HTF interim editor  Mountain Iron Old Cemetery: 1892 – 1900  Buried: 12 Names known: 7   More...