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 | The Soudan Mine on the Vermilion Range is the oldest and deepest iron mine in Minnesota. Its opening in 1884 set the stage for Minnesota’s reign as the country’s leading iron ore producer.
In 1880 Charlemagne Tower, a wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist, purchased some 20,000 acres of iron-rich land in northern Minnesota for development. Within two years he had incorporated the M... |  | 01/26/2007 | 625 | 
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 | This is the end of the line for the Iron Ore mined at Mt Whaleback, Newman Iron ore mine. You can see five ships in port ready to be loaded | | 07/15/2006 | 414 |
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 | Seven Island Bay is one of the largest and best-protected harbors on Quebec’s north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Because this is both a deep-water port and ice-free year round, Sept-îles is one of Quebec’s busiest ports. Locally produced materials (iron ore, alumina) comprise the bulk of port traffic, but Sept-îles also acts as a trans-shipment point for goods moving to Europe, the Far Ea... |  | 11/03/2005 | 566 |
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 | Mount Whaleback is the world's largest opencast iron mine. The ore is transported on a private railroad line to Port Hedland (422km north) for shipment |  | 07/15/2006 | 1,048 |
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 | This Iron Ore vessel is leaving Port Hedland, escorted by two tug boats | | 07/15/2006 | 444 |
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 | 12 Bostons to Boulogne docks which were accurately bombed without loss to the Bostons. | | 02/11/2007 | 221 |
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 | Portsmouth Dockyard has been at the forefront of maritime technological developments since it was the site of the world's first dry dock in 1495.
That was followed in the 1690s by the first stone wet and dry docks which can still be seen today, one being the home to HMS Victory and another to Mary Rose. |  | 01/25/2006 | 297 |
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 | Bilbao's port is the biggest in Spain, with over 30km of docks. It's only Spain's 3rd in traffic, after Barcelona and Algeciras. Great enlargement projects have been developed in the last years, as you can see the large red and pink docks in the southern section didn't exist when the satellite images were taken! | | 09/12/2005 | 373 |
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 | The Pacific fleet undergoing maintenance- An aircraft carrier, 2 ships and dry docks. |  | 07/18/2005 | 1,289 |
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 | A ferry probably th eone from "Moby Lines" in the docks of Livorno for repairs. Left & right of the ferry, these ships are frighters. | | 08/02/2005 | 275 |
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 | Two Dornier DO17s passing over targets at Victoria Docks London. Photo taken sometime during 1940. | | 08/03/2009 | 398 |
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 | At the time of her retirement in 1981, the Edna G. was the last coal-fired, steam-powered tugboat operating on Lake Superior. Named for the daughter of J. L. Greatsinger, then-president of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Company, the tug was built in 1896 specifically to transport ore carriers to and from Two Harbors. She remained in service there for all but two years of her career, when she ... | | 01/26/2007 | 259 |
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