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Mesabi Range
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Mesabi Range 

a center of the mining industry in northeastern Minnesota (USA), in the Lake Superior region. The most important American iron-ore basin and the North’s primary raw-material base for ferrous metallurgy. Annual extraction is about 50 million tons. In addition to rich hematite ores, lowgrade taconites (ferruginous quartzites) are mined and processed into concentrates. The key centers are Virginia and Hibbing. Exports pass through the ports of Duluth and Two Harbors.



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This region has a huge number of mineral deposits like iron ore especially in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota as well as in Michigan?
After the LTV plant closed in January and left 1,400 workers without jobs, Capella officials started working with the Mesabi Range and Community and Technical College to create the grant program.
com) is a publicly-traded mine development company that controls 100% of the NorthMet copper-nickel-precious metals ore body through a long-term leases and owns 100% of the Erie Plant, a large processing facility located approximately six miles from the ore body in the established mining district of the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota.
 
 
 
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