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Misty Mountain Hop

Shouting its signature drone of 645 noise to full effect, a half-century-old Clinchfield veteran gives a hardy shove to thirty side dumps weighed down from unwanted discards of the taconite manufacturing process against a Minnesota hillside sheathed in misty morning fog and the brilliant colors of autumn. These tailings moves, oriented push-pull for bi-directional ease, operate several times per day to deposit ore scraps from Northshore Mining's iron processing plant at Silver Bay to the outfit's tailings pile located a few miles uphill, a move necessitated by the lack of wasteland adjacent to the processor's plot along the bank of Lake Superior.

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Uploaded on October 10, 2021
Taken on October 3, 2021