DULUTH, Minn., Nov. 26 -- A valuable find of iron ore has just been made on the Mesaba Range, three miles from the Hawkins mine, owned by the International Harvester Company. The first drill put ...

A decision on whether to reissue a permit to mine for the company vying to open Minnesota’s first copper-nickel mine is on ...

An industrial resurrection seems afoot at a long-promising but snakebitten $2 billion-plus taconite project. On a crisp fall ...

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is postponing a decision on a permit for a proposed copper and nickel mine in ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has delayed a decision until late next year on a key permit for the proposed ...

This northeastern Minnesota landmark ... "There is still iron ore here — it was no longer (economical) to mine," said Sarah Guy-Levar, interpretive supervisor who wore a Soudan Underground ...

Proponents point to 765 mining jobs Twin Metals has promised in the region, a shot in the arm for the region’s once-strong mineral extraction industry. Northern Minnesota’s Iron Range was a hub for ...

Now, it’s one of the centerpiece items of the Nippon deal. Still, the mine annually produces about 6 million tons of iron ore pellets for blast furnaces and might not be totally insulated from ...

Any new heavy-metals mines in northeastern Minnesota would be in addition to the many open-pit iron-ore and taconite mines in the region, which have already left behind a legacy of toxic pollution and ...

Any new heavy-metals mines in northeastern Minnesota would be in addition to the many open-pit iron-ore and taconite mines in the region, which have already left behind a legacy of toxic pollution and ...

yielded the purest iron ore in the country. Now University researchers will mine knowledge that could put them on the ... the United Kingdom and the state of Minnesota $175 million. MINOS will aim to ...