


Mining and the MPCA | Minnesota Pollution Control … - The Importance of Iron Mining | Imagine LiFe without …
Northeast Minnesota's six active iron mines and their processing facilities produce two-thirds of the iron ore used to make steel in the United States. The iron ore is recovered from taconite, which is a challenging process that …UMN Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) is driving the "Iron of the Future" research program for Minnesota's Iron Range with the help of a $2.1 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant leveraging an additional million dollars of Minnesota legislative and other support. Steel industry furnaces are seeking higher value iron pellets at the same time that
