TACONITE

low-grade iron ore, a flintlike rock usually containing less than 30% iron. Resistant to drilling and to the extraction of its contained metal, the rock was long considered worthless. Experiments begun in 1912 by the American scientist Edward W. Davis and continued by him for nearly 40 years produced the pelletizing method for upgrading the ore. The development of the jet piercer (a high-temperature flame thrower) provided penetration speeds of up to 40 ft (12 m) an hour for blasting holes in the rock. In 1956 exploitation of the vast reserves of taconite in the Mesabi range of Minnesota was begun by some of the largest steel companies in the United States.

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books on: Taconite  - 94 results

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Controversy, Courts, and Community: The Rhetoric of Judge Miles Welton Lord
Book by Verna C. Corgan, Paul L. Murphy; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Judges--United States--Biography, Law And Politics, Lord, Miles, Rhetoric
...21 n.24 Superior National Forest, 52 Taconite, 82 , 98 - 99 n. 1 , 99 nn.2, 12 ; beneficiation...definition of, 68 ; mad building and, 95 ; Taconite Study Group, 99 n. 9 . See also Taconite tailings; Taconite tailings disposal Taconite...
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Economic Geography of Industrial Materials
Book by Albert S. Carlson; Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1956
Subjects: Raw Materials
...rate of about a million tons a year. Taconite, Another Source of Iron Ore Meanwhile...the problem of economically converting taconite -- hard rock with about 25 per cent...concentrating techniques to produce high-grade taconite pellets. Major shipments of taconite...
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Raw Materials: A Study of American Policy
Book by Percy W. Bidwell; Harper, 1958
Subjects: Mines And Mineral Resources--United States, Raw Materials--United States
...exploitation of the immense reserves of taconite 2 in the Lake Superior region. With...and the state of Minnesota imposed on taconite production a severance tax which was...grade iron ore. In 1956, shipments of taconite concentrates over 60 percent iron were...
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Study of the Soviet Economy
Book by Nicolas Spulber; Indiana University, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Economic Conditions--1955-1965
...problems of beneficiating and agglomerating taconite has tremendous economic implications...American iron and steel industry. American taconite plants were built on the basis of three...in the form of sinter in their first "taconite" plant, called UGOK, at Krivoi Rog...
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Voyageurs National Park: The Battle to Create Minnesota's National Park
Book by Fred T. Witzig; University of Minnesota Press, 2004
Subjects: Voyageurs National Park (Minn.)--History
...proved so successful in his battle for the taconite amendment in 1964. On November 9, 1967...their support. 59 As he did with the taconite amendment campaign, Ander- sen chose...honorary chairman, just as he did for the taconite project, and Duluth attorney Arthur...
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journal articles on: Taconite  - 27 results

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Developments in Industrial Relations
Journal article by George Ruben; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 110, 1987
Subjects: Aerospace industry--Contracts, Air traffic controllers--Labor unions, Automobile industry--Contracts, National Air Traffic Controllers Association--Membership, Rouge Steel Co. Eveleth Taconite Co.--Finance, Steel industry--Contracts, Stevedores--Contracts, United Automobile Workers--Contracts
...reflected in a settlement between Eveleth Taconite Co., a supplier to the industry, and...Steelworkers. Eveleth mines and processes taconite, a type of rock containing iron ore...cuts in controllable costs. Eveleth Taconite is operated by Ogleby Norton Co. of...
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The History and Peopling of Minnesota: Its Culture
Journal article by Rhoda R. Gilman; Daedalus, Vol. 129, 2000
Subjects: Minnesota--History, Social evolution--Minnesota
...iron locked into the hard rock known as taconite took a step forward in 1955 when the first taconite plant went into operation. Two years later...twenty-five-year moratorium on additional taconite taxes. By the late 1960s nearly half of...
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An Analysis of Minnesota Power & Light Company and Its Subsidiaries
Journal article by Gwen Thomas; Management Quarterly, Vol. 38, 1997
Subjects: Automobiles, Electric utilities--Management, Investment companies, Minnesota Power and Light Co.--Management, Water utilities
...including forestry, product mills and the taconite mining industry, the domestic steel...main supplier of pelletized iron ore. Taconite mining customers account for approximately...MPs electric operating revenue. While taconite production is expected to be at record...
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New Governance for a New Rural Economy: Reinventing Public and Private Institutions-a Conference Summary
Journal article by Mark Drabenstott, Nancy Novack, Stephan Weiler; Economic Review - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Vol. 89, 2004
Subjects: Conferences, Public administration, Public private partnerships, Rural areas, United States
...resources as its economic base-in this case, timber and taconite, used in making steel. Tourism has also contributed to the areas economy. After decades of decline in timber and taconite, Sertich indicated the region was at a tipping point when...
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Minnesota: A Work in Progress Shaping the Landscape and the People
Journal article by John S. Adams; Daedalus, Vol. 129, 2000
Subjects: Minnesota--Social aspects, Social evolution--Minnesota
...Minnesota invented a method for beneficiating low-iron-content taconite to produce a uniform, marble-sized pellet of more than 60...industry languished; the small resurgence made possible by the taconite industry required many fewer workers on Minnesotas Iron Range...
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magazine articles on: Taconite  - 8 results

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A Tale of 2 Tankers
Magazine article by Paul Gryniewicz; Sea Classics, Vol. 38, April 2005
...the next 20 years, Middletown hauled taconite pellets from Silver Bay on Lake Superior...loads of coal and stone in addition to taconite. On 15 September 1986, trouble struck...pattern. After taking on 26,000 tons of taconite at Silver Bay and delivering them to...
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Utilizing Utilities
Magazine article by Hazel R. O'Leary, Thomas G. Byrer, Allen D. Harmon; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 9, Summer 1993
Subjects: Electric utilities--Economic policy
...company has been doing to help Minnesotas taconite industry improve its efficiency and productivity...pellets. We supply firm power to five taconite producers, and we are working ever more...of our largest customers--the five taconite production facilities and three paper...
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Ss William G. Mather: a Classic Great Lakes Bulker
Magazine article by Robert T. McLaren; Sea Classics, Vol. 43, May 2010
...Fitzgerald and her crew of 29 who were lost in a violent storm on 10 November 1975. The bulker was carrying 26,116-tons of taconite pellets. Your walking tour starts from the cargo hold as you climb a ladder (stairs) to the forward crew quarters for the...
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A Man with a Superior Attitude
Magazine article by Susan Champlin Taylor; National Wildlife, Vol. 35, February 1997
Subjects: Environmentalists--Conduct of life, Lake Superior--Environmental aspects, Lind, Alden--Conduct of life
...the Save Lake Superior Association. The group succeeded in convincing a federal judge to order Reserve to stop dumping its taconite tailings--finely ground particles which contained asbestoslike fibers--into the lake. When Lind returned to Duluth in...
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Asbestos
Magazine article by Andrew Schneider; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 24, January 2001
Subjects: Asbestos, Disease, Fatalities, Investigations, Libby Montana, Media coverage, Mining, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, W R Grace & Co
...Their employers, locations and the minerals they mined are different. Vermiculite in Montana, Virginia and South Carolina. Taconite along the Iron Range in Michigan and Minnesota. Talc in upstate New York. They worked for Grace, Virginia Vermiculite...
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newspaper articles on: Taconite  - 6 results

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THE IRON LADY OF AMERICA; Modern Times This Week Charlize Theron Could Win an Oscar for Her Portrayal of a Female Miner Who Fought for 14 Years to End a Brutal Campaign of Sexual Harassment. but the REAL Story of Lois Jenson's Crusade Had No Happy Ending ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 2, 2006
Subjects: Working women
...historic lawsuit against the giant Eveleth Taconite Company. Lois was appalled when she...mothers, she was hired to work at Eveleth Taconite, one of seven mines on Minnesotas Iron...August, the Lois E Jenson vs Eveleth Taconite Co was filed in a U.S. District Court...
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Miner Charlize Digs for Gold; THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW with Charlize Theron
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 4, 2006
...woodisation of a historic event that took place in the iron mines of North Minnesota. Lois Jenson filed a suit against Eveleth Taconite Co on behalf of herself and the other female mine workers in 1988. The first class action law suit for sexual harassment in...
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Fun on Waterways along Minnesota Trail
Newspaper article by Candyce H. Stapen; The Washington Times, March 16, 1997
Subjects: Minnesota
...within driving distance of 1,975 miles of streams and 2,021 lakes more than 10 acres in size. Ely is a trail head for the Taconite Trail, one of the states most popular hiking routes, which meanders through state and national forests. Along the way...
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Springsteen: Change Is Still the Same
Newspaper article by Hank Pearson; The Washington Times, April 7, 2001
Subjects: Springsteen, Bruce
...furnaces, kept em hotter than . . . I come home from Nam, worked my way to scarfer, a job thatd suit the devil as well. Taconite, coke and limestone fed my children and made my pay, them smokestacks reachin like the arm of God into a beautiful sky of...
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Minnesota Bike Trail a Work in Progress
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 25, 2005
...careful, of course, to keep one eye on the trail. Other major stretches of trail run about 13 miles between Grand Rapids and Taconite (named for the rock that yields iron ore) and a newly completed six miles between Marble and Pengilly. Grand Rapids has...
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encyclopedia articles on: Taconite  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Taconite
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TACONITE low-grade iron ore, a flintlike rock usually containing less than 30...blasting holes in the rock. In 1956 exploitation of the vast reserves of taconite in the Mesabi range of Minnesota was begun by some of the largest steel...
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Mesabi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the open pit method. Reserves of high-grade hematite iron are now exhausted, and lower-grade taconite deposits are being worked. The taconite contains mostly chert and magnetite (an iron-bearing mineral) and must undergo a costly and complex...
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Minnesota , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Economy Minnesota is one of the nations largest producers of iron ore. Methods developed to use lower-grade ores such as taconite have kept production up in spite of the depletion of once rich high-grade deposits. Granite (from St. Cloud) and sand...
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Duluth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Great Lakes, a convention headquarters, and the gateway to a resort region. Large amounts of grain, iron ore (especially taconite), oil, and bulk cargo are shipped on lake freighters and ocean vessels. The diverse industries include fish processing...
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Iron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and limonite (ferric oxide trihydrate, Fe 2 O 3 3H 2 O). Other ores include siderite (ferrous carbonate, FeCO 3 ), taconite (an iron silicate), and magnetite (ferrous-ferric oxide, Fe 3 O 4 ), which often occurs as a white sand. Iron pyrite...


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