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Mined as a low-grade iron ore
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taconite
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Population (2000): 315 Housing Units (2000): 150 Land area (2000): 4.883090 sq. miles (12.647144 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.364056 sq. miles (0.942901 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.247146 sq. miles (13.590045 sq. km) FIPS code: 64048 Located within: Minnesota ...
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Taconite is a variety of iron formation , an iron -bearing (> 15% iron) sedimentary rock , in which the iron minerals are interlayered with quartz , chert , or carbonate . Newton Horace Winchell , the Minnesota State Geologist, coined the term during his ...
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n. a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore
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