One more stop along the north shore before we reach our destination, and it's certainly a favorite. Rocky Taconite, a cartoonish looking fellow, was built out of steel storage tanks to honor taconite, the ore that saved America's steel industry, and the people who discovered that you could extract iron from it. The steel industry was in trouble when the pure iron ores in the Mesabi Iron Range where being exhausted until they learned that this extraction from taconite was possible. Since taconite is abundant in the area, the Mesabi Range was saved. Rocky is perched on top of a giant slab of taconite.
He really should have his own Saturday morning cartoon.
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Is this the Worls Largest Rocky Taconite?
I don't know officially, but I'll go out on a limb and say yes.
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