drives the mine train on the bottom level of the mine during a tour of the underground iron mine facilities on Thursday, May 30, 2024 at the Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park.

SOUDAN — Minnesota’s oldest and most famous underground mine will reopen for public tours in May after a $9.3 million restoration project kept it closed for more than two years. The Soudan ...

SOUDAN, MINN. — It’s always 51 degrees, with a quality of darkness rarely experienced, at the bottom-most point of Minnesota’s oldest, deepest and richest mine. And after $9.3 million in ...

Deep beneath the surface of northern Minnesota, in the lowest levels of the abandoned Soudan mine, mysterious microscopic creatures abound. The organisms are in ancient water held by rock formed 2 ...

SOUDAN, MINN. – The lab sits a half-mile underground, a three-minute trip by mine shaft, so that experiments on the universe's tiniest particles won't be interrupted by noisy cosmic rays.

TOWER, Minn. (WCCO/AP) -- A $50-million physics laboratory operated by the University of Minnesota is being threatened by a fire burning deep in the Soudan Underground Mine State Park near Tower.

In you go. DAN KRAKER, BYLINE: Sarah Guy-Levar herds about a dozen kids and several adults into a disconcertingly small steel cage for the descent into the Soudan Underground Mine. It's only 5 ...

Firefighters battled a fire at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park near Tower on Tuesday morning. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the damage will not impact the reopening of ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. The Soudan Mine is undergoing some construction on its mine shaft! The renovation will be finished next year, which will ...

For almost 100 years, the Soudan mine in Tower, Minn., yielded the purest iron ore in the country. Now University researchers will mine knowledge that could put them on the forefront of physics ...