90% of Tower Soudan Underground Mine Bats Have Died To Do Fungus
The White Nose Syndrome is a fungal disease that kills bats. It has been spreading further west in the last 10 years, and it's even made it's way to the Tower Soudan Underground Mine
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This College Student Wrote An Amazing Song For The Iron Range
With the backdrop of the Soudan Mine, Steven Solkela played his original song as a tribute to those miners in search of Iron Ore.
White Nose Disease Kills Bats At Tower Soudan Mine According To MN DNR
We've talked previously on air and even in my blogs about the Tower-Soudan underground mine. Last time my family and I visited in 2013 we had to walk across a special mat that was too remove any fungus spores from our shoes.
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Tower Soudan Underground Mine Takes You Half A Mile Down into the Earth [VIDEO]
The Tower Soudan Underground Mine is located in Northern Minnesota and offers tours of the now closed down underground mine. This morning during our "Are you smarter than Cathy" trivia game, I asked her how far down the mine shaft went. The answer was 2,341 feet, which is about 2,160 feet more than she thought. (She had no idea.)