Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: hoyt lakes

Cliffs-Erie

30 Sep 2006 70
Near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Looks like they could easily put the mine back into production, but that's likely an oversimplification. Taken on an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Power

19 Aug 2006 68
Minnesota Power's Laskin Energy Center, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken last week; scanned from slide.

Erie Mining

25 Aug 2006 109
A small piece of LTV's taconite processing plant at Erie Mining Company, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Polymet , a mining company with a fairly large northern Minnesota property, plans to use the plant for processing copper and other non-ferrous ores. Taken during the recent convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Pellet Plant

16 Sep 2006 100
The large buildings at Erie Mine are actually three separate but closely-related plants--an ore crusher, an aggregator which separates the iron from the waste rock, and a taconite pellet plant which packages the ore into the pellets that the steel mill furnaces expect. Near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Gon

25 Nov 2006 68
A railfan views an abandoned gondola outside the ( temporarily ) abandoned taconite plant at the Cliffs-Erie location, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Another photo from our excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society in early August.

Erie Mining 4210

18 Nov 2006 104
I'm playing with Aperture, and with Connected Flow's FlickrExport add-in to the product.... Taken at Cliffs-Erie (Erie Mine), Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, in August of 2006. Part of an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. Explored! #417 on Sunday, July 29, 2007. Thanks!

Railroad Crossing

09 Sep 2006 103
At the Cliffs-Erie complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, during last month's convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Wooden Box

23 Sep 2006 74
Part of a work train parked on the edge of Erie Mine, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken an a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. Didn't deliberately overexpose this one--in bright light, framing a photo with the F10 is guesswork, and exposure's pretty much outside your control--but it came out nicely....

Cliffs-Erie

02 Sep 2006 118
This is the crusher building at LTV's large open pit mine near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota--the place goes by a variety of (historical) names, the most recent of which is Cliffs-Erie (Cliffs being the mine's manager; Erie being the mine's name). The Hoyt Lakes plant is the oldest taconite processing plant in existence, dating from the mid-1950s. The processing plant's been optioned to Polymet; the rest of the complex is available.... This photo really doesn't give a proper perspective; that building would be huge in any setting. Taken during a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

4211 @ Erie Mining

12 Aug 2006 91
Explored! #184 on Friday, January 18, 2008. Thanks! Both the taconite processing plant and the F9 (Covered Wagon) are apparently functional, but unused, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. This photo posted just to make my brother jealous.... We're back from vacation. More tomorrow.