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About 1,100 7th graders are absorbing all things STEM during the Iron Range Science and Engineering Festival, which is back in person.

MOUNTAIN IRON – Jay Sanders likes his new digs. Sanders, a fourth-generation miner from Hibbing, deftly dug into the side of a huge overburden wall at United States Steel Corp.'s Minntac Mine at the controls of one the taconite plant's newly-refurbished electric shovels. “I think it's positive,” Sanders, a United Steelworkers member said as the P&H shovel's huge 41-yard bucket scooped up another load of overburden. “Anytime the company invests in the place you are working is good.” U.S. Steel on Wednesday took the wraps off the sixth giant electric shovel to be rebuil...