Trevor Collins

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Let's dive in to the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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So the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a freighter that traveled the Great Lakes from the late 1950s until it sank in 1975.

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yes absolutely that's where like all the cargo would be able to be accessed through hatches in the top we'll talk about those and i'm sure though not confident on this particular iteration of a freighter but traditionally yes you could also put cargo on top of the decks that can then stack but yeah we're talking about a big old classic freighter and this thing is a normatron i'll give you an idea of its size here in just a minute

But the ship made its maiden voyage in 1958.

It was carrying taconite from the mines in Minnesota to ironworks in different cities bordering the Great Lakes.

So taconite, quick crash course history here if you're not familiar with it, it's a low-grade type of iron ore that was once considered complete waste because the concentration of iron in this rock is...

anywhere between 15 to 20%, sometimes upwards of 30%, but nothing really like other locations across the US.

The US then decided to focus on high-grade iron ore, kind of throwing this away, though once that was majorly depleted, mid-century processing methods brought value back to taconite, which is then saving the Minnesota mines.

You can then crush it down, process it, and then create iron pellets that then are, those are what's shipped.