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I live in SW Wisconsin in the driftless area. When I get tired of fishing the Mississippi and the best trout streams in North America I consider the iron range my stomping grounds.
Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan are all fun. My dad just sold the family cabin on lake Vermillion last year. I'm going to miss that place.
The iron range is covered with scars of boom and bust iron mining and all the low hanging fruit has been mined so any new mining will be even more invasive and environmentally destructive.
Lake Vermillion was the first place I went to a casino; Fortune Bay. Saw some guy win $10K playing black-jack with three 7s & he didn't even get excited.
Yep, the Chisholm, Hibbing, Mountain Iron, Buhl, Virginia area is covered in old open pit mines.
Most of the folks that are pro mining likely don't even know the associated environmental risk & damage potential; it's ALL ABOUT money & screw everything else.