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Mesabi Iron Company, Magnetic Concentration Plant, Babbitt, St. Louis County, MN

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Mesabi Iron Company, Magnetic Concentration Plant, Babbitt, St. Louis County, MN

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Summary

Significance: This plant began the development of commercial scale taconite processing in Minnesota. This plant used for the first time the magnetic concentration process to convert low-grade taconite into blast furnace feed.
Survey number: HAER MN-38
Building/structure dates: 1922 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1950 Subsequent Work

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Date

1950

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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Davis, Edward Wilson

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Location

babbitt, 47.70853, -91.94460

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