Mining Facts

The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!

All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.

In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.

Hibbing is an old mining town on Minnesota's Iron Range. In 1919, the mining company found its ore ran directly under the town. So it moved the entire town two miles south. Workers rolled nearly 200 buildings there on logs and steel rails. One hotel didn't survive the trip. The empty ground became a pit long billed as the world's largest open-pit iron mine. Hibbing still stands today, two miles from where it started.