Auburn & Great Western Mines

Producer in St. Louis county in Minnesota, United States with commodities Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free

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Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Ore body information
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Mineral rights holdings
Land status
Ownership information
Links to other databases
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10292453
MAS/MILS ID	0271370058
Record type	Site
Current site name	Auburn & Great Western Mines

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference	Ore Body
Geographic coordinates:	-92.5419, 47.53419 (WGS84)
Elevation	460
Location accuracy	10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Louis(county)

Minnesota(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virginia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vermilion Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hibbing(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Louis(hydrologic unit)

St. Louis(hydrologic accounting unit)

Western Lake Superior(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Minnesota	St. Louis

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
4th Principal	058 N	017 W	17	SWSWSW	Minnesota

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Aluminum Critical	Tertiary
Iron	Primary
Manganese Critical	Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates	Tertiary
Silica	Tertiary
Water, Free	Tertiary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Chert	Unknown
Goethite	Unknown
Hematite	Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1)	Coleraine Formation	ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

Area

65HA

Field	Value
Type of Orebody #1	OTHER
Shape of Orebody #1	MASSIVE
Shape of Orebody #2	IRREGULAR
Primary mode of Origin	SEDIMENTATION
Secondary mode of Origin	RESIDUAL CONCENT
Primary Ore Control	FAULTING
Secondary Ore Control	FOLDING
Degree of Wallrock Alter.	MODERATE
Type of Wallrock Alter. #1	OTHER
Total Surface Area (HA)	65
Date of Last Modification	820915

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type	Surface
Development status	Producer
Commodity type	Both
Significant	No
Discovery year	1894
Year of first production	1894

Mining district

District name	Mesabi District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights	Fee Ownership

Land status

Ownership category	Mixed

Ownership information

Type Owner-Operator

Owner U.S. Steel Corp.

Interest 100

Home office Pennsylvania

Year 1977

Type	Owner-Operator
Owner	U.S. Steel Corp.
Interest	100
Home office	Pennsylvania
Year	1977

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
U.S. Bureau of Mines	Minerals Availability System	MAS	0271370058

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	27-FEB-1984	Lewis, J.D.	U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

U.S. Steel Corp. — now part of United States Steel Corporation (2024)
Mining operations largely divested over the late 20th century; the broader U.S. Steel entity was acquired by Nippon Steel in 2024 (mining footprint is now minimal).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.