MINNESOTA MINERALS Mines & Advanced Projects of Iron Ore, Metallic Minerals, Industrial Minerals, Lake and Selected Construction Aggregates- January 2016 C a n a d a of the North America Woods The map symbols are greatly exagerrated in order to see the locations at this small map scale. The U S A DNR can not guarantee the accuracy, reliability, or currency of this data. The locations are based on a variety of sources.
International Scale 1:2,900,000 Rainy Lake 0 25 50 Falls Miles Minnesota, U.S.A. Reed-sedge Lake Kabetogama a n a Index for Taconite Mines and Plants C d 1. IDLE - United States Steel (USS) Keewatin Taconite a 2. Hibbing Taconite Mine and Plant Upper Granite S A 3. USS Minntac Mine and Plant Red Lake Boundary Waters U 4. Arcelor Mittal Minorca Mine and Plant Lower BWCAW Ely Canoe Area 5. IDLE - Cliffs Natural Resources United TaconiteRed Mine Lake Lake Vermilion 2 Wilderness 6. IDLE - Cliffs Natural Resources United Taconite Forbes Vermilion Iron Range Plant e Gabbro g 7 Gabbro Lake 7. IDLE - Cliffs Natural Resources Northshore Mine n R a n Mesabi Superior 8. IDLE - Cliffs Natural Resources Northshore Plant Lake r o I 4 3 Black Green 9. Construction not occuring: Essar Steel Minnesota Winnibigoshish i 2 3 4 x Taconite Mine and Plant b a 1 Mesabi 1 l e s 5 Nugget p e 9 Index for Plants Reprocessing Old Tailings for Iron Ore #3 m 8 Lake M 6 Eveleth #1. IDLE - Magnetation Plant #1 #4 Hibbing o #2. IDLE - Magnetation Plant #2 #1 Superior Leech Lake C #3. Mining Resources Plant #3 #2 Grand h #4. IDLE - Magnetation Plant #4 t Rapids u Sphagnum l Index for Advanced Projects for Metallic Minerals: u Copper+Nickel+Platinum Group Metals (PGM)*
D 1. PolyMetMoorhead NorthMet Deposit Sphagnum 2. Twin Metals Minnesota Maturi Deposit Duluth 3. Encampment Minerals Serpentine Deposit Reed-sedge 5 4. Teck American Inc Mesaba Deposit Mines & Processing Plants 5. Kennecott Exploration Tamarack Deposit Cuyuna Iron Sphagnum Ferrous - Iron Ore Advanced Projects are significant mineral deposits with no Range Taconite mines and plants (see index for mine in production. (2 here) taconite operations that are idle) Brown moss Mille IDLE - Nugget Plant - Mesabi Nugget Lacs Lake Plants reprocessing old tailings for iron ore Granite (see index for operations that are idle) Iridian Industrial Minerals Dimension stone quarries. Most of the quarries are Coldspring with the exception of Biesanz in Winona, Vetter Stone in the Mankato area, and Jasper Stone Co., in SW MN.
Barton Industrial Peat mines. Labeled by primary peat Sand, LLC commodity at site if known. Coldspring Plant only Kaolin clay pits. Also showing the Dimenson St. Cloud ACME-OCHS Brick Plant Stone Plant Granite Granite Mines and plants permitted to produce industrial silica sand. Granite Rockville Charcoal Agate Labeled by company and mine name Crushed stone quartzite quarry producing poultry grit Minneapolis St. Paul Selected Construction Aggregates *Class A crushed stone quarries. Selected from MnDOT's er iv Aggregate Source Information System database. R M a i SE MN counties with many limestone crushed stone quarries sot Great s s e Plains Sands i s **There are active gravel pits in all 87 MN counties. n Mine and s n i The locations are not shown on this map due to this i Plant p p map's small scale and the currency of gravel pit data. Gneiss M UNIMIN i Rainbow Mines and Plants: R Ottawa; i ^General Geologic Features ACME-OCHS v Kasota Limestone Dimension e Minnesota's Iron Ranges Brick Plant r Jordan Sands Limestone Stone Quarry and Duluth Complex Rocks Jordon Sands Mankato Vetter Stone Quarries Silica Sand: Biesanz Quartzite Quarry Jasper Stone Quarry Jordan Sands Rochester Base Map Features Jefferson Quarry Nisbit Mine Railroads Water Interstates Cities County Rein Quarry Boundaries Ports BWCAW *According to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) Class A quarries consist of basalt, diabase, gabbro, National & State Forests quartzite, or granite.**For more information about aggregate resources visit the DNR's aggregate resource mapping webpage or MnDOT's ASIS database webpage. ^Geologic features sourced from Minnesota Geological Survey's State Map Series S-21, 2011. Copyright 2016: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Division of Lands & Minerals - Jess Richards, Director.