Taconite River Formation information

The Taconite River Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut, Canada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. Earth sciences portal...

variously known as "jasper", "jaspilite", "iron-bearing formation", or taconite. Banded iron formations were described as "itabarite" in Brazil, as "ironstone"...

Bay Formation Permian Schei Point Formation Triassic Stuart Bay Formation Devonian Sunderland River Formation Devonian Taconite River Formation Ordovician...

ores and concentrates were produced from 1848 until the mid-1950s, when taconites and jaspers were concentrated and pelletized, and started to become the...

contains lower concentrations of iron and taconite than the underlying Gunflint Iron Formation does. The Rove Formation consists of a lower argillite unit,...

depositing layers of sediments that compacted and became limestone, dolomite, taconite and the shale at Kakabeka Falls. The continental crust was later riven...

(magnetite or hematite) are the principal iron mineral. Banded iron formations are known as taconite within North America. The mining involves moving tremendous...

Oreboat/Ironboat – bulk carriers used primarily to transport iron ore and taconite pellets. Saltie – seawaymax vessels that are primarily ocean-going, but...

Bentonite is also used as a binding agent in the manufacture of iron ore (taconite) pellets as used in the steelmaking industry. Bentonite, in small percentages...

pp. 524–526. Gruner, John (1946). The Mineralogy and Geology of the Taconites and Iron Ores of the Mesabi Range, Minnesota. Office of the Commissioner...

Retrieved 19 August 2013. "Rescue workers recovered 110 bodies from the Songhua River..." UPI. United Press International. Retrieved 17 November 2022. "Drunk...

for more than a century. Although the high-grade ore is now depleted, taconite mining continues, using processes developed locally to save the industry...

machines. Taconite – Edward Wilson Davis developed an engineering process to economically extract iron ore from hard taconite rocks, making taconite valuable...

Gogebic Range to extract remaining, lower-quality ore. The lower-grade Taconite ore of interest was located in the western portion of the Gogebic Range...

SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm November 10, 1975 while carrying taconite across Lake Superior to a port in Detroit, Michigan. The Great Lakes Storm...

previous rock formations and deposited deep layers of glacial till over most of the state, and created the beds and valleys of modern lakes and rivers. Minnesota's...

doi:10.1002/14356007.a14_461.pub2 Davis, E.W. (2004). Pioneering with taconite. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 0873510232. Schoenherr, Steven...

diamond have also been reported within the region. Development of the large taconite (iron ore) deposits in the 1950s led to the opening of the Atlantic City...

while the rest of the park is open to snowshoeing. The 165-mile (266 km) Taconite State Trail and a 1-mile (1.6 km) spur to the picnic area provide a snowmobile...