Two bicyclists were rescued after falling down a cliff into an Iron Range mine pit over the weekend. The incident unfolded around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Virginia, Minnesota, where the fire department ...

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All right. Hopefully, you're not afraid of the dark or of heights because we're about to plunge more than 2,300 feet underground, into Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine. The state provides most of ...

The Great Lakes region contains nearly 85 percent of North America's surface freshwater, and more than 20 percent of the world's supply of surface freshwater. Lake Superior alone holds 10 percent of ...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to allow a downstream lake to have sulfate pollution nearly eight times higher ...

One issue not getting much discussion during a hearing this week on relaxing Wisconsin’s mining laws might prove the most significant: falling prices for iron ore. A series of reports in the financial ...