MINE V: Coming Oct. 29
Mesabi Daily News
Bill Hanna
We are now into our second year of the MINE project, with MINE V to be published on Wednesday, Oct. 29. That will put us pretty much on a quarterly schedule for publication of the special editions that tell the fascinating story — past, present and in the future — of the mining industry that is so important to the Iron Range, state and nation.
he project, which is a collaboration of the Adams Publishing Group’s newspaper, online and video publications of the Mesabi Daily News, Hibbing Daily Tribune, Grand Rapids Herald-Review and Chisholm Tribune Press, focuses on the No. 1 economic driver of the region.
Mining has so greatly impacted all aspects of our personal lives and our communities for more than 100 years, and is poised for a bold future of many, many more years to come.
Mining Expo Draws Employers, Hopeful Employees
The third annual Iron Range Miners Expo provided a good opportunity for potential workers to meet companies that could become employers.
The Minnesota Discovery Center hosts the event, which had 80 different booths this year. Mining companies, equipment suppliers and engineering firms all had their best foot forward.
Read more: http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S3557591.shtml?cat=10363
Copper-Nickel Mining Could Move South of the Iron Range
MPR News
Dan Kraker
If Minnesota enjoys another mining boom, it may not be limited to the Iron Range.
Although towns like Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes are on the leading edge of the current wave of copper-nickel mine development, mining companies also are exploring much farther south, in an area without a rich mining history.
Such explorations have brought workers about an hour west of Duluth to a swampland just outside of Tamarack, population 94.
Read more: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/09/09/tamarack-mine
Iron Range Engineering Expands; 100% Job Placement
Iron Range Engineering is now starting the sixth year of offering the final two years of a bachelor’s degree in engineering on the Virginia campus of Mesabi Range College. IRE is an ABET accredited engineering program where students learn engineering skills and competencies while solving real engineering problems for industry clients in northeastern Minnesota.
In the past five years, 60 students have graduated from IRE; 80% of graduates are working as engineers in northern Minnesota with the other 20% working in metro Minnesota and beyond the borders of Minnesota for companies like Medtronic, Amazon, and Proctor and Gamble.
Twin Metals Gets High Marks
Mesabi Daily News
Bill Hanna
The proposed Twin Metals copper/nickel/precious metals mining project near Ely and Babbitt got a big validation of its economic potential in a pre-feasibility study released on Wednesday.
The study was released by Duluth Metals, the project’s 60 percent majority owner.
It shows that the mineral resources in the proposed Twin Metals site would provide a strong financial operating margin. In addition, the ready and in-place mining infrastructure along with an experienced and well-trained workforce adds to its economic viability.