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Steam Shovel Digging Borrow Pit

Date: 03 01 1919
Description: Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ...
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Construction of "Borrow Pit"

Date: 02 22 1919
Description: Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ...
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Workers and Steam Shovel in the Mud

Date: 1919
Description: Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S...
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Cahoon Mine

Date: 10 19 1925
Description: A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine.
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Cornwall Ore Banks

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Description: Cornwall Ore Banks includes one of the greatest iron mines in the world and it has been mined for more than two centuries. A steam shovel is shown loading ...
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Open Pit Iron Ore Mining

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Description: The Hull Rust Mahoning Mine is the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. Its first shipments were in 1895, and it has been mined for over a century.
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Mining Iron Ore

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Description: A train sending out a shipment of taconite from the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine.
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Steam Shovel

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Description: Elevated view of a steam shovel scooping iron ore into cars at, the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine.
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Steam Shovel

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Description: A 300 ton steam shovel scooping iron ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine.
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Iron Ore Mining

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Description: A Marion Shovel, Model 300, produced by the Winston-Dear Company, likely in Marion, Ohio, is put to use at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, in Hibbing, Minneso...
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Iron Ore Mining

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Description: A steam shovel loading ore at the Hull Rust Mahoning Mine, the world's largest open pit iron ore mine. Published by J.C. Congdon.
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Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine

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Description: The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, the owners of the rights to Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, was created in 1902.
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Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Ore Mining

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Description: Elevated view of steam shovels at work, removing taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, functioning as an open cast mine because of its soft, shallo...
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Steam Shovels Loading Railroad Cars with Iron Ore

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Description: Miners at work using steam shovels and railroad cars for transporting iron ore in Virginia, located on the Mesabi Iron Range.
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Industrial Tractors

Date: 07 25 1927
Description: Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. On the far right is a steam shovel.

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