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Taconite is an iron-bearing, high-silica, flint-like rock. It is a Precambrian sedimentary rock referred to as a banded iron formation due to the typical alternating iron-rich ...
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Taconite - Digging into MN Minerals: Minnesota DNR
Information on mining taconite, a low grade iron ore, in Minnesota from the publication, Digging Into Minnesota's Minerals by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division ...

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Taconite, hard, flintlike sedimentary rock of chemical origin, rich in particles of the red iron oxide, hematite, and the black iron oxide, magnetite. It is a commercially valuable but low-grade iron ore. The rock is named after the Taconic Range, lying on the borders of New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. A major deposit of taconite is found in the Mesabi Range in Minnesota. Deposits of a similar ore called itabirite are found in Brazil.

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