Despite setbacks, Mesabi officials are vowing to complete the massive project, located just outside of Nashwauk, within a ...

A controversial $2 billion-plus mining project on Minnesota’s Iron Range that has weathered an economic recession, missed ...

Then Minnesota officials yanked key state-owned ... Sutherland began his career as an 18-year old union millwright at Butler Taconite, a small mine that operated for nearly two decades in the ...

NewRange Copper Nickel this week completed one of the largest salvage and recycle projects in Minnesota history, cleaning up ...

"This is a landmark study for Minnesota and the Iron Range," School of Public Health dean John Finnegan said in the statement. "Our goal was to begin to anwer questions around how mining and taconite ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ... If completed, the Nashwauk project would be the state’s first new taconite mine and mill since the 1970s — and a big economic boost for ...

A reservoir with waste from a Minnesota mine is at the heart of a legal battle. The consequences for Lake Superior could be ...

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 ...