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 has no campgrounds or trails. But it does have a tour of an open-pit mine. As columnist and blogger Aaron Brown 

, the future of the Hill Annex park is in doubt, because officials are considering whether minerals still below the surface might make the mine profitable once more. 


"Buried in the park's charter is a provision that it could be closed if the iron ore reserves below the park were ever deemed commercially viable," Brown wrote. "Essar Steel, which aims to start operations north and west of Nashwauk next year, is saying they might be interested in mining there."


Host Tom Weber speaks with Brown about the mine and its prospects.

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The minerals still in the ground may make Hill Annex Mine State Park a workable mine once more.

First it was a mine, then a state park; will it be a mine again?

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