Minnesota is a state rich in minerals. Northern Minnesota is well-known for more than a century of iron ore mining — and more ...

The Great Lakes region contains nearly 85 percent of North America's surface freshwater, and more than 20 percent of the world's supply of surface freshwater. Lake Superior alone holds 10 percent of ...

Northern Minnesota’s lake-strewn hills are Paul Bunyan country. Their open-pit iron mines were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan’s Big ...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a state agency’s decision to deny an iron ore mine and processing plant’s request to allow a downstream lake to have sulfate pollution nearly eight times higher ...

One issue not getting much discussion during a hearing this week on relaxing Wisconsin’s mining laws might prove the most significant: falling prices for iron ore. A series of reports in the financial ...

With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. With demand for steel down and a trade war ...