From our Corps of Engineers RV park near McGregor MN we took a day trip to Hibbing MN for antiquing. We did not expect to find a huge open pit iron mine just outside town, so I did not put my Canon digital camera in the car for taking pictures of it for a blog. But I did have in the car a 5.1 mp Vivitar digital camera I try to leave there. I got the camera in an antique store for $10. This blog is experimental in that I wanted to see how well the camera would perform for blog purposes.
The fact that the type on this sign is readable speaks well for the camera’s resolution.
A brochure bills it as the world’s largest open pit iron mine, 3.5 miles east-west and 1.5 miles north-south at the greatest dimensions. It is in Minnesota’s Mesabi iron range.
Mining is carried on 24/7/365 on several faces. That shown here is the closest to the visitors observation area.
This is a view of another part of the pit from the visitors center.
Equipment is displayed at the visitors center. Here a huge mine truck is displayed next to a shelter over the powerplant for the truck. It is diesel electric. Stairs permit visitors to climb up in to the operator’s seat.
This shovel bucket dwarfs Jo.
And here is a tire for one of the mine trucks.
Our motor home at the Coast To Coast RV park near Gresham. This area of the park was sufficiently open so we could get satellite TV reception from the antenna mounted on the motor home. We had this part of the park to ourselves; the wooded part was very full on the weekend.
Jo was impressed with this town clock in Bondell which was recently installed.
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