The Northshore Mining Company in Silver Bay, Minnesota recently donated fire bricks to Lake Superior College’s art department. The bricks will be used to build or update kilns for LSC’s ceramics program. “We were thrilled to receive about 26 pallets of bricks. The brick will be used to restore existing kilns and to build new wood fire kilns,”? said Dorian Beaulieu, ceramics instructor at the college. The bricks will help complete a wood fire kiln now under construction and be used in a kiln building course to be offered fall 2007.

The fire bricks donated by Northshore Mining were no longer used in the taconite production process. “We were happy to donate these materials to Lake Superior College,”? said Warren Lind in Materials Handling for Northshore Mining. “We know they’ll be put to good use.”? This is the third materials donation LSC has received from Northshore Mining in the last decade.

Pictured in photo: studio assistant Jacob Haydon,( l), with ceramics instructor Dorian Beaulieu,( r).

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