US Coast Guard Wraps Up Ice-Breaking Operations
The Times, Munster, Ind. | 14 Apr 2017 | by Joseph S. Pete
The U.S. Coast Guard has wrapped up ice-breaking operations on the Great Lakes, after clearing the way for ore boats bound from Minnesota's Iron Range to Northwest Indiana steel mills.
Operation Taconite, named after the ore pellets that are burned to make iron in blast furnaces around the ring of steel mills on Lake Michigan's south shore, concluded earlier this week.
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