My dad's dad came over from Europe, escaped Nazis, that whole conversation, and ended up opening up a little grocery store, my grandfather and my two great uncles taking care of the miners. Actually, my dad grew up in a mining town, Virginia, Minnesota has one of the largest open pit mines in the entire world. It produced a lot of the iron ore that went on a train down to Duluth, where my mom was born, and got on the Great Lakes, ocean ways, or … (12:32–12:37)
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Asserts that Virginia, Minnesota has one of the largest open pit mines globally.
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