mesabi range

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   a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887

   Broaderrange

   Part ofMinnesota

Questions about mesabi range

What does mesabi range mean?

mesabi range means "a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887".

Is mesabi range a common word?

mesabi range is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.