taconite

NOUN
  1. a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore
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How To Use taconite In A Sentence

  • When I stood up to leave, Steinbach seemed disappointed that all I wanted to do was find out about taconite. Heaven’s Fury
  • In ten minutes I learned a lot more about taconite than I really wanted to know, but I appreciated the cost of the education so I listened patiently. Heaven’s Fury
  • And iron is in a lot of what we use in the world, so taconite equals money. Heaven’s Fury
  • Jaros said 2,500 pounds of iron ore pellets, also known as taconite, would be extracted from the ship at one time and deposited in an onshore scale. Daily Telegram Homepage RSS
  • Apparently, taconite is a Precambrian sedimentary rock—whatever that means—which is usually made up of about 25 to 30 percent iron ore. Heaven’s Fury
  • She was loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite at Superior, WI, on Nov.9, 1975 and left the port of Duluth-Superior, at the western end of Lake Superior shortly after 2: 00 p.m. in fair weather but with a foul forecast lying in wait.
  • For each, there are several kinds of geologic concentrations that represent actual or potential resources; consequently, for each we may expect the depletion history to consist of a series of production-history curves, as availability and cost dictate a steplike descent from high-grade hematite to taconite to iron-rich intrusive bodies, and from bauxite to alunite to high-alumina clays. Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical)
  • He hates Lew Prescott from a long time ago, and he hates the thought of his backyard turning into a taconite dynamite range, so he hired you to stop it by scaring people away from buying the land. Heaven’s Fury
  • An increasingly important source of iron for commercial uses is taconite, a mixture of hematite and silica.
  • The Lake Superior iron formations now consist near the surface mainly of interbanded quartz (or chert) and hematite, called _jasper_ or _ferruginous chert_ or _taconite_. The Economic Aspect of Geology
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