Risky Business! A Sailboat taking a risk during the Duluth arrival of the Mesabi Miner July 21, 2021

I do remember what happened to the Presque Isle July 20, 2020, it failed on their turn and collided with the wall. Not so sure I'd take my very crushable sailboat between the Miner and the wall, especially when they are starting a turn. It seems there has been a little loss of common sense and right away in our society as of late. I do remember when all the private vessels used to give way to the ships. Well, as you can see, no foul on this one, just a sailboat being impatient? You can see as the bridge comes down, the rest of the racing armada got denied. I do recall the bridge operator telling them on the radio he had to clear traffic, would raise at 17:30, about 8 minutes later.

The Miner arriving Duluth for the 10th time this season! Arriving 7/21/2021 5:23:00 PM, sailed up to CN to load iron ore for the next 50.2 hours! Something must have gone awry with the dock or the ship.

How about some info on the namesake of the vessel, it was named after the people and area which provides them with work!

Mesabi Range
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Lake Superior Iron Ranges

The Mesabi Range (upper center) is west of Lake Superior, north of Duluth, and far north of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Nearby towns include Grand Rapids, Hibbing and Virginia, Minnesota.

Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, Mesabi Range, 2010
The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore. It is the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota. First described in 1866, it is the chief iron ore mining district in the United States. The district is located largely in Itasca and Saint Louis counties. It has been extensively worked since 1892, and has seen a transition from high-grade direct shipping ores through gravity concentrates to the current industry exclusively producing iron ore (taconite) pellets. Production has been dominantly controlled by vertically integrated steelmakers since 1901, and therefore is dictated largely by US ironmaking capacity and demand.

Name
The Mesabi Range was known to the local Ojibwe as Misaabe-wajiw ("Giant mountain").[1][2] Throughout the Mesabi Range, "Mesaba" and "Missabe" spelling variations are found along with places containing "Giant" in their names.

Geology
There are three iron ranges in northern Minnesota, the Cuyuna, the Vermilion, and the Mesabi. Most of the world's iron ore, including that contained in northern Minnesota, was formed during the middle Precambrian. During this period, erosion leveled mountains. This erosion released iron and silica into the waters of a new sea. Marine algae living in this new sea raised the level of atmospheric oxygen. This oxygen catastrophe caused the eroded iron to precipitate into the banded iron formations found in northern Minnesota and other members of the Animikie Group. Over billions of years, geological forces left behind ore deposits of varied quality and concentrations – differences that would determine how the ore was mined from place to place. On the Mesabi Range, stretching 100 miles (160 km) from Grand Rapids to Babbitt, soft ore lay close to the surface, where it could be scooped from open pit mines.[3]

The overall structure of the range is that of a monocline dipping 5 to 15 degrees to the southeast. Key faults include the Calumet, La Rue, Morton, Biwabik, and the Siphon. The Duluth Gabbro complex to the east has caused metamorphic changes in the Biwabik formation. The natural iron ores and the magnetite taconites occur in this Precambrian Biwabik formation, which is a cherty layer 340–750 feet (100–230 m) thick. The natural ores are located in elongated channels or tabular deposits, while the magnetite taconites occur in stratigraphic zones. Natural ores have an iron content of 51 to 57 per cent while the taconites are 30 to 35 percent iron, and are beneficiated to pellets contain 60 to 67 per cent. The natural ores are mainly mixtures of hematite and goethite.[4]: 519–520, 522, 527–528  The most common silicate is Minnesotaite. Also of note are the presence of algal structures in the Biwabik formation.[5]

For the entire article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesabi_Range

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