How To Use Taconite In A Sentence
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When I stood up to leave, Steinbach seemed disappointed that all I wanted to do was find out about taconite.
Heaven’s Fury
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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
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And iron is in a lot of what we use in the world, so taconite equals money.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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An increasingly important source of iron for commercial uses is taconite, a mixture of hematite and silica.
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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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The Mesabi Iron Range contains some 110 miles of small towns built at the turn of the last century along a seam of iron ore called taconite.
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The asphalt uses taconite tailings as a substrate instead of rock aggregate, which is more widely used in asphalt but doesn't produce a product that is as durable as the tailings-based asphalt.
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All that land is filled with taconite, which is the stuff they turn into iron.
Heaven’s Fury
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The other included the development of new technology that could be used to beneficiate the taconite that was still abundant there.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 14~ Not One World, But Many
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Because it might scare off the two mining companies you have bidding for all that taconite.
Heaven’s Fury
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Bar tops in the fireplace-warmed "Bulldog Lounge" are made from local taconite rock, flecked with red iron ore; walls are inlaid with Minnesota stone and the decorative panels are made of wood salvaged from old grain elevators.
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Steinbach told me how most high-grade iron ore had been mined out of the United States by shortly after World War II, so the world turned to taconite as an alternative.
Heaven’s Fury