List Of Iron Mines In The United States
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Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum is a former iron mine, now a heritage museum, located on Euclid Street between Lakeshore Drive and Spruce Street in Ishpeming, Michigan. The museum, operated by "Marquette Range Iron Mining Heritage Theme Park Inc.", ...
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Hibernia mines The Hibernia mines are a series of iron mines in and around Rockaway Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, that were worked from pre- Revolutionary times until 1916. The mines worked a vein extending for more than . Several compa ...
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Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine The Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, is the largest operating open-pit iron mine in Minnesota. The pit stretches more than long, wide, and deep. It was established in 1895 and was one of the worl ...
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Iron Mountain (Utah) Iron Mountain, in southern Iron County, Utah, United States, is the namesake of Iron County. Its summit is at Description The mountain has a long history of iron mining, in the form of magnetite and hematite. Mining at this site goes back to B ...
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Iron Mountain District The Iron Mountain District, also known as the Iron Springs District, is a large, high-grade iron depositBullock, K. C., 1970, Iron Deposits of Utah, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Bulletin 88, 102 pgs. in southwestern Utah, near Cedar City. It ...
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Iron Mountain Mine Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California, US. Geologically classified as a "massive sulfide ore deposit", the site was mined for iron, silver, gold, copper, zinc, quartz, a ...
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Jackson Mine The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine in Negaunee, Michigan, extracting resources from the Marquette Iron Range. The first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, Jackson Mine was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 and listed ...
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Minorca Mine Menorca or Minorca (from la, Insula Minor, , smaller island, later ''Minorica'') is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Its name derives from its size, contrasting it with nearby Majorca. Its capita ...
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Milford Mine The Milford Mine produced high manganese-content iron ore in Wolford Township, Minnesota, United States. On February 5, 1924, it was the site of the Milford Mine Disaster, the worst mining accident in Minnesota history, when it was flooded by wa ...
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Mountain Iron Mine Mountain Iron Mine is a former mine in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, United States. Opened in 1892, it was the first mine on the Mesabi Range, which has proved to be the largest iron ore deposit ever discovered in the United States. Mining operat ...
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Pioneer Mine The Pioneer Mine was an underground iron mine in Ely, Minnesota, United States, in operation from 1889 to 1967. It is one of only two such mines on the Vermilion Range whose above-ground structures are still standing, the other being the Soudan ...
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Pyne Mine The Pyne Mine was a vertical shaft iron ore mine operated by the Woodward Iron Company and located near the Lacey's Chapel community outside Bessemer, Alabama (We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in Uni ...
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Rouchleau Mine The Rouchleau Mine is an abandoned open-pit mine within the Mesabi Iron Range at Virginia, Minnesota, United States. The mine, located on the east side of the city, is roughly long and wide; its deepest point is below its surface, making it one ...
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Sloss Mines The Sloss Mines are a group of mines in southwestern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. They were established by the Sloss Iron and Steel Company and its successor, the Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company, on the southern end of Red Mou ...
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Soudan Underground Mine State Park The Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park is a Minnesota state park at the site of the Soudan Underground Mine, on the south shore of Lake Vermilion, in the Vermilion Range (Minnesota). The mine is known as Minnesota's oldest, dee ...
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Wenonah, Alabama The Wenonah community (formerly Fossil) was the name of one of a series of Red Mountain ore mining camps for employees of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (TCI). Name The name was chosen by TCI's social science director Marion Whidden as a ...


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Iron mining in the United States Iron mining in the United States produced 48 million metric tons of iron ore in 2019. Iron ore was the third-highest-value metal mined in the United States, after gold and copper. Iron ore was mined from nine active mines and three reclamation ope ...
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