Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota's Iron Range, 1915-2000
Jeffrey T. Manuel
Abstract
Taconite Dreams describes a century-long struggle to preserve the iron ore mining in Minnesota's Iron Range region. Once among the world's richest iron ore mining districts, the Iron Range propelled the U. S. steel industry in the late nineteenth century. Yet in the twentieth century the Iron Range struggled in the face of deeply entrenched challenges from globalization, automation, and depletion. Taconite Dreams describes the key moments in the Iron Range's modern history, including the development of taconite mining as a technological fix for declining hematite mines, the 1964 taconite amend ... More
Keywords: Iron Range, deindustrialization, taconite, mining history, Reserve Mining v USA, economic development, Edward Davis, Ironworld
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816694297 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816694297.001.0001 |
