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Examples of taconite
taconite
Federal scientists pinpoint Reserve's taconite tailings as the source of the asbestos.
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Taconite tailings are mostly the mineral quartz, which is chemically inert.
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The ship's mid-section had been reduced to heaps of metal and taconite.
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Rick Nolan says Minnesota taconite producers need more time to meet certain air quality standards.
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Banded Iron formations are known as taconite within North America.
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The federal plan requires taconite plants to install cleaner-burning furnaces over roughly three years.
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At issue was the Reserve Mining Co.'s taconite plant, whose construction in 1952 had created the town.
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Fishermen reported a considerable drop in catches on windy days when the taconite clouded the water.
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In 1975, the freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, left Superior, Wis., headed for Detroit with 26,000 tons of taconite.
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- A variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore
- Taconite is a variety of iron formation, an iron-bearing (>15% iron) sedimentary rock, in which the iron minerals are interlayered with quartz, chert, or carbonate. ...
- A fine-grained sedimentary rock which occurs naturally in the Lake Superior region and which is a suitable material for the manufacture of stone tools.
- Natural mineral containing less than 30% iron. It is the primary ore used in blast furnaces.
- A highly abrasive iron ore.
