[cms_ad] In the early 1880s, federal surveys noted magnetic anomalies near what would become the Cuyuna Range. No visible outcrops of iron ore were present at the surface. Henry Pajari and Cuyler ...

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Iron ore was discovered in the Cuyuna Range in 1904. At its peak during World War I and II, 20-30 mines operated in the area about 70 miles northeast from Randall in Morrison County. Mining ...

It looks a little weird, as well, to see paddlers seemingly glide on their butts across the deep water that fills this former taconite mine, part of central Minnesota’s sprawling Cuyuna Country ...

According to the Cuyuna Iron Range Heritage Network ... any one of the area's peak mining years would result in millions of tons of iron ore production to be used for purposes all over the ...

During World War I and World War II, the mines were an important producer of the manganese-rich iron ore used in wartime production. At one point, more than 30 mines operated in the Cuyuna Range ...

First named the Ida Mae, the Milford Mine was three miles north of Crosby. Cuyuna Iron Range ore contained large concentra-tions of manganese used for heavy, high-grade steel. The mine's first ...

The small mines east of Ostrander were nothing like the giant Mesabi, Cuyuna and Vermilion ranges ... Today, the area's iron-ore industry is an historic oddity, but the open-pit mines scattered ...

While its iron ore is high grade, much of it is located ... Northeastern Minnesota’s two other inactive iron ranges — the Cuyuna Range near Crosby and the Gunflint Range between the Gunflint ...