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“How appropriate it is, in this place where miners from many nations unlocked nature’s hidden treasure and extracted the richest iron ore, that today scientists from many nations are again working this mine to wrest from this very same billion-year-old rock formation a new load of riches as old as the origin of the universe itself— the baffling neutrino.”July 20, 1999Congressman James OberstarMinnesota’s 8th District

Minnesota UNDERGROUNDThe headframe raises and lowersthe elevator that carries tourists,workers, scientists, materials andequipment a half mile down intothe historic Soudan mine, homeof the MINOS detector.

Beautiful downtown Soudan, Minnesota.

The MINOS cavern will hold the 90 x 24 foot steeland plastic detector.

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Officials from the Department of Energy, the State of Minnesota, the University of Minnesotaand Fermilab broke (under)ground for the MINOS detector cavern on July 20, 1999.

Thousands of visitors each year tour the Soudan Mine,a Minnesota historic site operated by the state’sDepartment of Natural Resources. Here, a model“miner” illustrates life in the former iron mine.