Life of an Iron Range blogger, Part 5

Here is the final installment (this week) of “life as an Iron Range blogger,” the diversionary exercise that allows me to keep content on the blog while I work on my book.

Here is the Hull Rust Mine on Hibbing’s north side. This isn’t natural. Every crook and cranny of this pit was dug by people over a hundred years of mining. The “mountains” are really piles of overburden, red iron mining waste cast aside as part of the process. I named my upcoming book “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range” after them. This is the central image of any visit to the Iron Range.