{"id":767,"date":"2014-10-28T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2014-10-28T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:24:52","slug":"nothing-grows-here-after-50-years-why-spruce-rd-ely-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/nothing-grows-here-after-50-years-why-spruce-rd-ely-mn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing grows here after 50 years &#8211; Why?  Spruce Rd, Ely, MN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-768\" alt=\"Acid Mine Drainage and a barren hill top from Spruce Road Hill top removal in the 1960's\" src=\"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spruce-Road-Hill-Top-Removal400x259-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spruce-Road-Hill-Top-Removal400x259-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spruce-Road-Hill-Top-Removal400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On the south side of the road not far from Outward Bound&#8217;s Home place is a barren hilltop where nothing grows expect a short 10-12&#8243; course uniform dusty gray plant and a few, very few, Jack Pine. \u00a0This is \u00a0the flat top remaining from a large exploratory hill top removal, in search of \u00a0marketable minerals, by Inco in the 1960&#8217;s. \u00a0What they found, in the way of mineralization, was of insufficient quality to justify mining at that time. \u00a0What they left was a flat hilltop where nothing grows and the runoff is a bright orange as seen toward the end of the video.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows you where the hilltop is located in Google Earth. \u00a0To visit this site, go south of Ely on Hwy 1. \u00a0Turn left onto Spruce Rd. just beyond the Kawishiwi bridge. \u00a0Go a short distance beyond the entrance to Outward Bound and watch for a parking area on your right in front of a short rise to this hill top. \u00a0Or set your GPS to Latitude\u00a0\u00a047.832424\u00b0 \u00a0 and Longitude\u00a0-91.678229\u00b0 \u00a0You could also enter these coordinates into Google Earth and zoom into the image above left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9CUJlNh8yo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the south side of the road not far from Outward Bound&#8217;s Home place is a barren hilltop where nothing grows expect a short 10-12&#8243; course uniform dusty gray plant and a few, very few, Jack Pine. This is the flat top remaining from a large exploratory hill top removal, in search of marketable minerals, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,196,39,200,119,3,67,70],"tags":[74,228,264,90,34,229,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}