Just over 150 years ago, people came to northern Minnesota in search of gold.
Instead, they found a more enduring, but no less valuable resource — iron ore.
The rest, of course, is history — Minnesota history shaped by generations of entrepreneurial, daring and hard-working “Iron Rangers.”
Good paying jobs, the ability to raise a family, vibrant communities, quality education and stewardship of the wilderness and environment — these are the past and present values and aspirations that define more than a century of mining throughout Minnesota’s Iron Range.
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