mining

The biggest deposit ever found in North America was recently discovered beneath Minnesota, helping ease a worldwide shortage. It's even bigger than originally expected.

An explorative drilling team accidentally found a rich deposit in Minnesota. They now are setting up an operation to extract the rare element.

Tesla is one of the worldwide leaders in electric vehicles and a key ingredient in any EV is the battery used to power it, now a proposed mine near Duluth will play a major part in their construction. Talon Metals' Tamarack mine location located about 55 miles from Duluth signed a deal worth about $1...

By ordering this study, the process of having mining begin in that area is certainly slowed, but it doesn't necessarily mean it will never happen.

Austin Shackman and Mason Kroll, 8th graders from Virginia won the grand prize of $1,000 with their unique video.

There is a new, giant, expensive piece of mining equipment now working in northern Minnesota.

The St. Louis County Board recently received their annual report from the Mine Inspector Derek Harbin.

Polymet Mining has received their final required permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their copper nickel mine near Hoyt Lakes.

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.)

This was a first for me, and I saw it this weekend on the Iron Range.  State Patrol cars came down the highway and were actually driving in the opposite lane, forcing the traffic off the road completely.  Then, the semi trailers appeared driving side by side, on the back was a large piece of mining equipment straddling both trailers.

A semi truck carrying ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in mining, overturned this morning near Hibbing Taconite.  A mile wide evacuation effort was originally in place, but the tanker appears to not be leaking any of the chemical, just hydraulic fluid.

Scientists have found ancient water in the depths of the old Soudan Mine, and they believe the water is from an ancient sea.  The sea would have existed before life even was on earth!