Mining
Hibbing has two active iron ore mines that border it’s city limits - Hibbing Taconite Company and Keewatin Taconite. You can view one of the biggest operating open pit operations only a few miles from Hibbing’s downtown. It is 8 miles long, 3 miles wide and 500 feet deep. The Hull Rust Mahoning view is often tagged as the Grand Canyon of the North.
Currently, the six iron ore mines of Minnesota’s Iron Range contribute $1.8 billion to Minnesota’s economy. The iron mining industry is the largest employer in the central iron range region, supporting over 4,000 good-paying, family-sustaining jobs in the area. All of Minnesota's iron ore mines are represented by the United Steelworkers Union.
Hibbing is home to dozens of mining supply and distribution businesses. Hibbing schools offer courses that support the area's workforce and has put a focus on STEM courses at all levels. The lives of our people, past and present are intertwined with mining.
Multiple organizations offer information about mining on their websites. The following links can help you as you venture to learn more about this magnificent industry, the culture that embraces it, and the bright future that it promises.
Taconite Mining
Iron Mining Association of Minnesota
The Iron Mining Association (IMA) of Minnesota promotes a healthy iron ore industry that will continue to benefit northeastern Minnesota as well as the entire state. It's an industry our communities, state and country depend on today and into the future
324 West Superior Street, Suite 502 • Duluth, MN 55802
Email: info@taconite.org • Ph: 218-722-7724 Fax: 218-720-6707
http://www.taconite.org
Taconite Properties in the Central Iron Range Area:
Cleveland Cliffs:
United States Steel Corporation:
Minnesota Ore Operations - Keetac and Minntac Minn.
Nonferrous Metal Mining or Copper-Nickel Mining
Mining Minnesota
Minnesota is a membership organization committed to sustainable and environmentally responsible critical and strategic metals mining development. Driven by a diverse coalition of organizations, companies and individuals, Mining Minnesota will bring growth and job creation to the state through the responsible development of Minnesota’s natural resources.
http://www.miningminnesota.com
Frank Ongaro, Executive Director
218.393.2301 fongaro@miningminnesota.com
Join and Support Jobs for Minnesotans
Jobs for Minnesotans was co-founded by the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and represents businesses, middle class workers, labor, local governments and other supporters of job creation in the state of Minnesota.
Jobs for Minnesotans was created to educate and provide information about the direct and ancillary job creation that the strategic metals mining can produce for the state.
Minnesota has the opportunity to gain thousands of jobs for generations of Minnesotans by safely extracting strategic minerals from one of the world’s largest known, untapped sources of copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, cobalt and gold located in northeastern Minnesota’s Duluth Complex.
Join us and support the cause at
www.jobsforminnesotans.org and visit
www.facebook.com/Jobs4MN to stay informed.
Copper-Nickel Mining Companies:
PolyMet Mining:
Mineland Reclamation
The Laurentian Vision Partnership
During the last decade, the Laurentian Vision Partnership has been working with mining, government, business and community interests on the Mesabi Iron Range to demonstrate how the mining process can create land forms to accommodate the residents, the environment, and the economy of this region’s promising future. Through participation in the Laurentian Vision Partnership, a diverse group of stakeholders will have a voice in designing the future landscape of the Iron Range.
The Laurentian Vision Partnership is a regional coalition that promotes the development of productive post-mining landscapes on the Mesabi Iron Range by cooperating in:
Jim Plummer
Laurentian Vision Partnership Coordinator
218.735.3032
jim.plummer@state.mn.us
SME Minnesota Section
The Laurentian Vision Partnership
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Minnesota Section is
- The world's largest society of minerals professionals.
- Advances the worldwide mining and minerals community through information exchange and professional development.
- Will strive to advance the mining and minerals community in their Section.
For more information, please visit
http://www.mnsme.org/. For more information on the Northern MN subsection, please visit
http://www.northernmnsme.org/.
"The Iron Range - The times they are a changin'..." is a 16-page special section that tells the story of how mining has become a highly technical industry and details the success of local world-class vendors and manufacturers that produce goods and services for the region, state and nation. Development of the region's talent pipeline and a highly-successful Iron Range customer engagement industry are also highlighted.
Produced by Twin Cities Business, the section was released May 22, 2017 in Twin Cities Business and was released May 28, 2017 in the Duluth News Tribune.
About Hibbing, MN
Hibbing is the heartbeat of Minnesota’s Iron Range. Our community is 72 miles northwest of Duluth, 208 miles north of Minneapolis/ St. Paul, and 90 miles south of the Canadian border. The city is the largest on the Iron Range and serves as a regional center for government, healthcare, professional services, mining, retail, and education. 75,000 people live within a 60-minute drive to Hibbing. The people of our region have a strong work ethic which the region will need as expansions in the mining sector grow thousands of well-paying jobs.
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