Business North is reporting that Iron Range Resources will not follow through on the board recommendation to temporarily fund the Iron Range Research Library at the Minnesota Discovery Center (formerly Ironworld) over the winter. It will fund the winterization, audit and planning costs for the Ironworld Development Corporation to reorganize.

So, the research library remains shuttered after all, until this mess is sorted out.

UPDATE: It was pointed out to me that Hometown Focus (a Virginia, Minn.-based Range weekly and online publication) had this story first. It’s a good one.