Babbitt, Minnesota
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Babbitt is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,397 at the 2020 census.
Babbit Municipal Center
Mesabi Range
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The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district and mountain range in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore. It is the largest of four major iron ranges i
Babbitt, Minnesota
…out of the formation of a taconite mine built by Armco and Republic Steel starting in 1944. The company town was built near the eastern edge of the Mesabi Iron Range. The city of Silver Bay was built simultaneously along Lake Superior (60 miles to the southeast), and connected by train, for transportation of iron…
Lake Superior Iron Ranges
Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mesabi Range, 2010
Open-pit iron mining with five-ton steam shovels, Hibbing, Minnesota c. 1906
Duluth Ore Docks c. 1900–1915