Taconite Mining: Technology, Taxes, & Tailings

Collections Outside of MNHS

Fred A. Cina Papers Collection, Minnesota Discovery Center Archives
Correspondence, articles, testimony, reports, speeches, background material, and newspaper clippings documenting Cina’s career as a Lawyer and Minnesota State Representative, including legislation he authored. Cina was an advocate for the mining industry and a co-author of the Taconite Tax Amendment.  

Edward Wilson Davis Papers Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries
Collection contains the papers of Edward Wilson Davis, professor emeritus and director of the University of Minnesota Mines Experiment Station; considered the father of the taconite industry.

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