About Mountain Iron Mine
Industrial Facilities, Mineshafts, Interesting Places
The discovery of a boulder of high-grade iron ore by Leonidas Merritt in 1887 during a survey for the railroad, which he brought to Duluth, the Merritt brothers ("the Seven Iron Men") established the Mountain Iron Mine in 1892 Mountain Iron, Minnesota which represents the beginning of the exploitation of the Mesabi Range iron ore in the Iron Range of northeast Minnesota.
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Missabe Avenue, Mountain Iron, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States of America, 55768