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Near the Peter Mitchell Mine, Peter Mitchell in 1871 put down the first recorded test pit on the Mesabi Range. A 28 ton piece of magnetic taconite was removed from the mine near that area. The pit location is 6,246 yards 40 degrees east of south from this point.
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