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Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Mine in Hibbing, MN - Partial Overview

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:09pm on 16/08/2010 under
Can you see the enormous digging truck in the middle-right? It's about two stories high. Zoom in by clicking, and eventually you'll find it.

Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota
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posted by [identity profile] zcat-abroad.livejournal.com at 09:31am on 17/08/2010
Just a question: Why do they mine rust? Surely that's freely available on old cars?

The scale is rather amazing!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:05pm on 17/08/2010
The name is pretty funny! Hull, Rust, and Mahoning are all last names.
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posted by [identity profile] crustycurmudgeo.livejournal.com at 12:30pm on 17/08/2010
Looks like they're almost ready to blast another level down. Much more and they'll need to pump water out.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:07pm on 17/08/2010
At some point in the past, when they stopped mining this part of the site, this part filled in with water, a good 300 feet or so of it. Now, years later, they've pumped lots of that water out and only have a couple hundred feet of it in the deepest parts of the dig. This is only a small part of the overall mining site, so presumably other parts were mined in the interim.
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