Environmental journalists visit U.P. mines

A recent class of journalists studying environmental writing got an up-close look at mining issues in a Marquette tour.

Excerpt: Staring into a white-hot, 1,000-degree furnace gave me a moment of recognition.

I was peering into an enormous kiln at the Tilden plant in Marquette, Mich., a huge rotating machine that's just a small part of the 20,000-acre mine, watching as iron ore became steel.

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Source: Peninsula Pulse
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