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Aug 2, 2016 · A town that once lived and died on mining's boom-and-bust cycles appears to be on the upswing. Downtown outfitters, coffee shops and restaurants are bustling with summer tourists here for the...
Aug 2, 2024 · Ely, city, seat (1886) of White Pine county, east-central Nevada, U.S. It is adjacent to East Ely, near the Utah border. Established in 1868 as a gold-mining camp and probably named for John Ely, a mining promoter, the community expanded after 1907 with large-scale copper mining.
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Feb 4, 2022 · Defined by its complex history, Ely is a colorful town Minnesota is lucky to have. On the wilderness' edge, people there can disagree. But most try to get along — and make a living.
Jul 2, 2020 · Mining is in the DNA of most people in Ely, Minnesota. The state used to be the center of U.S. iron ore mining, though no mines have operated around Ely for more than 50 years.
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Aug 2, 2016 · Some believe Ely needs to dig deeper into its mining roots and embrace plans for the Twin Metals Minnesota copper-nickel mine, a project supporters say will boost the economy and detractors say could wreck the environment and the tourism that sustains Ely now.
Jul 7, 2020 · Mining is in the DNA of most people in Ely and the surrounding towns that lie in or near the state’s three iron ranges, diagonal streaks of ore-laced land running parallel with the shore of Lake Superior as they converge upward into Canada.
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Settled in the 1880s as Florence, it was renamed for Samuel Ely, a Michigan miner. Iron ore was discovered there in 1883, but, because of the high cost of underground mining, the last underground mine closed in 1967.
