2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (303+ words) Mesabi Metallics Company LLC has agreed to a deal to sell a portion of its royalty interest for $265 million. The company, which plans in the third quarter of 2026 to open the first new taconite plant on Minnesota's Iron Range in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (258+ words) Minnesota iron mine commissions Komatsu P&H 2800 XPB electric rope shovel, built in Wisconsin by American workers as part of $110 million equipment investment'restoring domestic mining leadership and creating American jobs The shovel is part of Mesabi Metallics$110 million investmentin large-scale…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (367+ words) The end of the mining ban near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area is now official." President Donald Trump has signed a"Congressional resolution that passed the Senate"earlier this month on a 50-49 vote, reversing a moratorium on mining on federal…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1099+ words) The U. S. Senate has voted to overturn a20-year ban on miningon about 350 square miles of federal land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, paving the way for Twin Metals to renew effortsto open an underground copper mine near Ely, on the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (264+ words) Mike Bakk, senior director of mining operations at U. S. Steel and co-chair of the Iron Ore Alliance, left, Lee Bloomquist, center, and John Arbogast, staff representative for United Steelworkers District 11 and co-chair of the Iron Ore Alliance. "The Iron Ore Alliance…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (343+ words) businessnorth. com House of Representatives on Wednesday advanced a measure to repeal the Biden Administration's 20-year mining ban on 225, 504 acres in Northern Minnesota's Superior National Forest."I'm thrilled the House has passed H. J Resolution 140 to repeal Biden's illegal mining ban…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago  (609+ words) From the early days of underground iron ore mining to the current day taconite industry, United States Steel Corp. , has been a major economic player in northeastern Minnesota and the state. An analysis now shows how much it contributes. Prepared…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago  (283+ words) " "Pulsar Helium is drilling a fourth well at its project site near Babbitt. " The international helium developer said it has completed its third well at its Topaz project site and on Nov. 9 began drilling its fourth appraisal well. " "It is…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (512+ words) Northeastern Minnesota's earth is full of in-demand minerals and metals. Taconite, copper, nickel, cobalt, gold, platinum group metals, and more. "Iron ore pellet and steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. says it's looking into the possibility of mining some of those minerals " rare…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (324+ words) Talon Metals Corp. is donating core samples from its proposed nickel-copper-cobalt project near Tamarack to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Two 20-centimeter nickel drill core samples taken from a Vault Zone at the company's Tamarack Nickel-Copper- Cobalt Project…...