The PolyMet and Teck American joint venture recently launched an $18 million project in Hoyt Lakes, beginning the transformation of an old taconite plant into a copper-nickel operation. NewRange ...

No doubt it’s an eye-opener for many Minnesotans to learn, from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that Iron Range taconite operations have run up pollution fines totaling more than $700,000 in the last ...

From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. The following story is the second in a series produced in collaboration with KAXE/KBXE, an ...

SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST — When the Biden administration barred new mining activity on 225,000 acres of federal land in the Rainy River Watershed, the decision was aimed at protecting the Boundary ...

Cliffs Natural Resources is developing a new type of taconite pellet for use in steel-making that relies on natural gas instead of coal. This undated file photo shows operations at the company's ...

EPA’s regulations set first-ever mercury emissions limits on the mills that process low-grade iron ore known as taconite. A federal appellate court has rebuffed two steelmakers’ bids to freeze ...

Parts of Minnesota’s system of collecting taconite taxes and distributing that revenue need more clarity, transparency and oversight, according to a report released Thursday by the state legislative ...

HIBBING - A nearly $5 million, five-year effort to find out why so many Iron Range residents have died from a rare lung disease has traced the deaths to the taconite industry, but stops short of ...

ON THE IRON RANGE —Gene Olds worked as a millwright at the LTV Steel taconite plant in Hoyt Lakes, Minn., for 38 years. He made a good living, but working in a cloud of dust took its toll. Not long ...

The iron content of taconite, which has been identified in various surveys to be present in Millenium Range, is present as dispersed magnetite. Until early 20th century, taconite was considered waste.