Wednesday, May 27, 2009 By Aaron Brown
A company is experimenting with the shipment of taconite tailings to Chicago as an aggregate for road construction. This according to a story in today's Mesabi Daily News. Let's hope it works. Right now that's the only Iron Range taconite product on the water.
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May 28, 2009 at 6:40 AM
Oh, let this be true...what a light at the end of the tunnel it would be.