Minnesota's Lost Mining Towns - Full Documentary

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I’m from eastern Ky and mining in my blood so Minnesota always been a place I’ve wanted to go see…

Thanks for posting this ❤❤❤

You have too dam much advertising during this video. I shut you off.

Duluth history is in some way linked to me because my grand grand parents migrated to that city and they have been living there for the rest of their lives.....So many Slovenian people went there but we are such a small state in southern Europe that nobody knows of us....only 2 mil of population but we are hearty folks and are proud of our heritage....As so were my ancestors.....But when they visited their old country (Slovenia) they always told us how they are missing it......Small towns, no big industries to ruin landscape and enslave people to work for practicly nothing for all the time......I still remember them and as they passed away i will always have in mind their thoughts.....No matter where you go to seek your fortune, you will always have the link to your home.

Well done. I really enjoyed this.

How's the town of embarrass? doing, isn't that an old mining town. I always hear how cold it is in that town.

“Burn the house down”
Oh my, that’s a dang shame!

PBS north did a great job throughout the whole documentary series!
Well done and thank you!
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Iron ore?? Pffft AU baby

When I was a kid in the 1950s, we lived in a completely modern affluent Minneapolis suburb. My parents and grandparents all were academics and university professors. They were always taking our family to one visit historic site or another. One summer when I was 9 or 10, we took a month-long trip to the Mesabi and Vermillion ranges during the taconite boom to learn about the history and current practices of the iron mining industry. I remember being fascinated by the geology and impressed by the huge size of the trucks and other equipment used in the mining industry.

Great documentary

Living in Minnesota I Always Figure when $hit Hits the Fan that I would take the Family and Friends up to The Tower Soudan Mine since it is all set up with electric and the natural refrigeration that is Available ! level 27 was being developed at 2,341 feet (713.5 m) below the surface and the entire underground workings consisted of more than fifty miles of drifts, adits, and raises. With all of the Iron Ore figure down deep it would be one of the safest areas once the Nukes start to Fly or Just Societies Collapse !!!

TOO many commercials. Good grief. Stopped watching.

As a child, I remember often stopping at Fraser location with my father. He was a coach at Chisholm High School. This was only a detour of a few minutes from our home in Chisholm. I am curious as to why it is considered a location of Buhl, as it is closer to Chisholm, and it's residents were educated at CHS.

Were there any mines or abandoned mines around walnut Grove, circa 1876 or so.

A touching documentary and I could relate to the Finnish family at the end as I grew up in a Finnish family in nearby Wisconsin in the 50's. It was in the countryside near Superior. My grandparents sure had their sauna and we would use it often. Also back then, they were the first ones to have a television, and before my parents got one, we would go there to watch a bit.

It would have been interesting to hear more how people lived in the winter. Did the mines still operate. Winters there can be quite severe.

I lived on the Iron range for 10 years in the 90s The finlanders called us pack sackers😃

One of the only places on Earth a person CAN be " older than the hills " around the towns. 🙂🙃

I've been to a couple of em best just to look not touch

Love it, as a Baby Boomer from the fifties this brings me some loving memories. I did not grow up within a Mining town, but this does bring me home, thanks for sharing and for the respect you show for these challenging but loving times. God Bless. God, Family and Country. 1776

Mesabi bus became Greyhound.

awful dreadful annoying background repitive noise

After seeing the methods and techniques used to mine ore post 1900... PLEASE explain to me how exactly, they mined all the brownstone block from say Duluth prior to 1900.

When I was a young kid in Duluth about 1960 I remember reading a help wanted ad in the paper for a school teacher on the Iron Range. “Must speak Finnish”, I remember it said.

Communist propaganda. Those “poor” immigrants now have the most successful and prosperous descendants in the frickin world.

God Bless ‎Elston Gunn

They left alot of garbage behind when they scurried to the bank

Really good program! Thanks for sharing.

I don't see any reference on the map noting Elcor. My family, the Butala's had to move from Elcor to Gilbert.

I would love to watch this but I need closed captioning. The CC on this video is a hot mess.

I want to know about mining communities. But they intrigue and sadden me. It is sad that things decline, but miners are always exploited. And this doco didn't mention much if anything about the environmental damage these mining operations caused, and the legal trials in the 1970s. Still, I'm intrigued and I find myself wanting the community to hang on. The idea of a community is nice. And when it is gone something goes with it.

Northern Minnesota is in my blood. Although my mom and dad moved down to the cities when they were young my favorite place is up there. It smells different up there. Different energy in the air. I don't go up there enough. Still got cousins living up there but most my uncle's and aunts are past on.

A couple of my uncle's mined up there. One said there's things that went on that he could never talk about or they'd kill him. I'm assuming some miners were killed mining or by disgruntled other miner then they just made the body go away.

what size tire & lift do have on van?

PBS can you please upload Iron Country hosted by Marvin Llampa?? Thankyou

I can only imagine how difficult life was in the mining industry of the time, but it also strikes me that, unlike other countries mining industry, the workers were not as badly treated by mine owners, they had virtually everything provided for them, although I think that had more to do with productivity and profitability than humanitarian reasons, homes, schools, entertainment, supplies etc etc etc, but what strikes me is that vast sums of money was spent to provide all this “workers welfare” and the mine owners were, obviously,still making huge profits, and I was wondering if they ever had to return the land back to some semblance of its original form, filling open cast mine craters, sealing up pit shafts, removing old equipment etc????, In addition there were obviously going to be deaths, whether that was from natural causes, industrial accidents, or health conditions, so it follows that there would be cemeteries, did they move those to new locations????, it just strikes me that almost overnight some locations would close and very shortly after the company’s would move everything, lock, stock and barrel to a new location without missing a beat, and whole towns would move like swarms of bees, it must have been incredibly hard to keep doing that????.
Thanks for sharing another interesting and informative documentary film with us all. Really enjoying the whole series of films. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Super documentary, thanks. Boom and bust, that's the way it goes.

Things haven't changed much have they aside of the owners taking their money over seas to break every ones balls. Now they are back. some on let them all back in a few years ago. Allowed them to bring their money back. Not much has changed aside of it's hard to move up into income today just going on to work an make an honest living unless you do nothing but work all day 6 days a week.

My family came from Ireland and we're farmers but I'll always be Minnesota strong and understand the things that happened up north. hockey got me an education in Michigan. I'll never forget home, thank you. Silver bay🤔🤔🤔🤔a bit of a mess. Born in 1960, Minnesota is beautiful!

Fascinating. I just moved to the Iron Range and the people here are the salt of the earth. Originally from California. Big, big change for the better.

Born & raised in Grand Rapids Minnesota. Which butts right up to the Iron Range. Lived in a few Iron Range towns, Bovey, Taconite,Taconite, and Coleraine. Grew up swimming in Tioga & Buckeye pits. Loved growing up in the beautiful area.

I worked with Forrest Koland at US Steel. He was my Track Boss. He always had a funny way of explaining things but a great teacher.

It's sad the way these very hard working people were exploited by these mining companies. They didn't even own the land they lived on and had little control over their own fates. The towns they built such fond memories in were erased. I understand the nostalgia for simpler times, but wish there was a little more critical thought expressed about the economic system that did this to them and how unsustainable it is.

Our Grandfather ran a restaurant and hotel called Holland Hotel and Restaurant in Virginia Mn. My siblings were born there too! However once he passed away the family moved out East in 1960s.

I love my state of Minnesota

I'm so glad I moved out of that state.