Marquette Iron Range - The Iron Range Today

The Iron Range Today

As of 2009, the Cleveland-Cliffs' Empire Mine and Tilden Mine continue to produce iron ore from the Marquette Range. Cleveland-Cliffs ships the ore by a wholly owned short-line railroad, the Lake Superior and Ishpeming, to Marquette for transport by lake freighter to steel mills in the lower Great Lakes.

The Marquette Iron Range became a Michigan registered historic site in 1957 as S-0035. The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming celerates the history of the iron ore deposit and its miners.

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