The Mineral Range Railroad (reporting mark MRA) is a shortline railroad in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It began operations in 2002 over a three mile long industrial track from

Ishpeming Ishpeming ( ) is a city in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. Located in the Upper Peninsula, the population was 6,140 at the 2020 census, less than it was in the 1950s and 1960s when the Iron ore mines employed more workers. A statue ...

to National Mine to serve an explosives plant. The railroad expanded in 2012 to include 12 miles of former Lake Superior and Ishpeming rail lines operated by

Canadian National The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue an ...

between Ishpeming and

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to serve the Eagle Mine concentrating plant.https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/profiles/short-lines/mineral-range-railroad-profile/ The Humboldt Mill was reopened in 2014 and is operated by Eagle Mine, owned by

Lundin Mining Lundin Mining Corporation, headquartered in Vancouver, owns and operates mines that produce base metals such as gold, silver, copper, and nickel. The company's major properties are the Candelaria mine (copper; Atacama Region, Chile), a 70% inte ...

. It was originally opened in 1954 by

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CCI, formerly Cliffs Natural Resources) is an American steel manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. They specialize in the mining, beneficiation, and pelletizing of iron ore, as well as steelmaking, including stamping a ...

, who operated it until 1979. Between 1985 and 1990, Callahan Mining Company used it to process gold from the Ropes Gold Mine in Ishpeming, Michigan. After several changes in ownership, Eagle Mine started to use it for nickel and copper extraction in 2014. Traffic on the Mineral Range Railroad primarily consists of nickel and copper ore concentrates.

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