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BLOGGING AT THE INTERSECTION OF
INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE AND  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Iron Country: Iron Ore and Minnesota's Future

9/9/2015

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A somewhat cheesy video from the 1950s - but an interesting one nonetheless - as it depicts the push to make taconite a household name and a national mainstay.  Some nice footage of the pelletizing process to boot:


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    John Baeten is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Analysis of Environmental Change in the Department of Geography at Indiana University. He holds a PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. His research aims to connect historical process to current environmental challenges, and to contextualize the environmental legacies of industrialization as meaningful cultural heritage.

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