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Babbitt’s mining monument The first test pit on the Mesabi Range


The plaque on this monument to mining reads: This 28 ton piece of magnetic taconite was removed from the Peter Mitchell Mine near the area where Peter Mitchell, in 1871, put down the first recorded test pit on the Mesabi Range. Pit location: 6,248 ya...

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