My friend Jessica called me earlier this week to alert me to a story that ran on Michigan Public Radio about the iron ore mining industry in Ishpeming. For those of you not familiar with the history of mining at the Tilden and Empire Mines in the U.P., this is a quick and interesting read with a photo slideshow.
My family members on both sides have been employed by the mines for a couple of generations - my dad currently works at the Tilden Mine, where I was a summer employee the summer before my junior year of college.
Check it out!
Our Changing Gears project is on the road, bringing you stories of towns where one company still affects everybody’s lives. Today we head north, to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That’s where North America’s biggest supplier of iron ore has been blasting the earth, and creating jobs, for more than 160 years.
Our destination is the city of Ishpeming. It’s small. Basically, you can’t throw a rock here without hitting a miner. Read more...
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