Several Companies Have Completed Shipments for the Season
Biwabik—The Biwabik mine, operated by the Pod-Stambaugh Co., has completed its ore program for this season, with a total shipment of 300,000 tons. Stripping operation is now being carried on, and will continue during the winter.
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Kinney.—The Republic Iron & Steel Co. has completed its ore shipments at the Kinney mine, for 1922. This property is worked by open-pit methods only, and forwarded approximately 800,000 tons for this shipping season.
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Hibbing—The Utica mine, a property of the Pickands-Mather Co., has practically finished its underground shipments for this year, amounting to 200,000 tons. This property is one of the largest underground producers on the range, and the present plans call for full operations this winter.
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The Mesaba-Cliff’s Iron Mining Co. has announced the reopening of the underground workings at the Boeing mine. The property has been closed since April, 1921, and only a small initial tonnage had been mined when the underground work was suspended.
Ore operations will start on completion of work incidental to the reopening of the property, which should take place about Nov. 15. Both stripping and ore operations continue in the open pit.
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Chisholm—Ore shipments at the Dunwoody mine, operated by the Orwell Iron Co., are still going forward, with 600,000 tons as the goal for total shipments of this season. Preparations are now being made for an extensive stripping operation this winter.
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Gilbert -- The shaft at the Hobart mine, a property of the Hanna Ore Mining Co., is to be sunk an additional 70 ft. and a new tram level is to be developed, for the mining of the ore above this level. The Hobart stockpile has been shipped, and it is anticipated that the property will be worked to full capacity during the winter months.
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Nashwauk—To meet the increased demands on its pumping capacity due to the construction of a new unit to the Hawkins mine concentrator, the Wisconsin Steel Co. is installing a centrifugal pump, with a capacity of 3,000 gal. per minute, as an addition to the present station at O’Brien Lake.
