HIBBING, a village of Saint Louis county, Minn., U.S.A., 75m. N.W. of Duluth. It is served by the Duluth, Missabe and Northern and the Great Northern railways. The population was 15,089 in 1920 (37% foreign-born white) and it was 15,666 in 193o by the Federal census. It lies in the midst of the great iron deposits of the Mesabi range and the beauties of the great "North woods." Shipments from mines in the Hibbing district totalled about 16,000,000 tons in 1923. Underground mining, which pre vailed earlier, has been largely superseded by the open-pit meth od, in which the surface is stripped down to the ore-beds, and the ore is then dipped out with steam shovels. In North Hibbing is the largest open-pit mine in the world: 14m. long by z to im. wide, with a stripped area of 600ac., and an output in 1926 of 4,537, 605 gross tons. Hibbing has a fine high school and junior college (built 192o-24), with provision for 3,00o students. The village was settled in 1892, when mining developments began, and was incorporated in 1893.