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Some literature says if the wolf holds his ears back flat against his head, with his back arched, he/she is in a defensive position. This photo was taken at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. The animals are inside of a large physical fence. Camera work is thru clear plastic walls. The animals seem to be well managed and healthy. The animals have come to the facility thru different processes that prohibits there being returned to the Wild.
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus). This animal was said to be the oldest resident at the facility.
They inferred that he would likely be the next animal to fight serious old age issues. This photo was taken at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. The animals are inside of a large physical fence. Camera work is thru clear plastic walls. The animals seem to be well managed and healthy. The animals have come to the facility thru different processes that prohibits their being returned to the Wild.
Autumn colors at the intersection of the Echo Trail and the Little Indian Sioux River between Crane Lake and Ely, Minnesota.
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An incoming storm in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area casts an orange glow at sunset. No color manipulation here either.
Location: Knife Lake, BWCA
The Pioneer Mine was a major employer in Ely, MN from 1888 to 1967; the water tower and the A shaft headframe still provide a landmark visible from many places in town.
The Pioneer Vermilion Iron Mining Company opened the Pioneer Mine in 1888 and began shipping ore the following year. When Oliver Iron Mining Company leased the Pioneer in 1898, it was producing over 500,000 tons annually. Eventually, it was considered the richest of Minnesota’s underground mines. It closed in 1967, not because the ore body was exhausted, but because underground mining was so labor-intensive. With a 100-man workforce, open pit mines produced about 5,000,000 tons of ore annually. The underground Pioneer operations employed approximately 600 miners to produce 1,000,000 tons annually.
While some of the Pioneer ore is similar to others in hardness, some is soft and earth-like and when wet from groundwater becomes difficult to mine. This created great dangers from mud slides threatening and taking lives of many courageous miners. There still exists substantial deposits of unmined Blue Hematite containing as much as 63% iron.
Along with the mine at Soudan, the Pioneer Mine buildings and A shaft headframe are the last structures remaining as an example of extensive underground mining operations and the hardy men who mined the Iron Range.