American industrial history presents few groups more brilliant, more resourceful, and more picturesque than that which, in the early seventies, started to turn these Minnesota ore fields into steel — and into gold.

在美国工业史上，很少有团体比 70 年代初开始将明尼苏达州的这些矿田变成钢铁和黄金的团体更辉煌、更足智多谋、更如画。