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Erie Mining Company History Project Team, Taconite, New Life for Minnesota's Iron Range: The History of Erie Mining Company. Duluth: St. Louis County Historical Society, 2019. Manuel, Jeffrey T., "Mr. Taconite: Edward W. Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore, 1913–1955," Technology and Culture, 54 (April 2013), 317–45.
In addition, Mesabi Metallics (controlled by Essar Steel) is constructing a mine/plant near Nashwauk to mine and process taconite. [11] Steel Dynamics and Kobe Steel formerly owned and operated Mesabi Nugget ( 47°31′41″N 92°07′18″W / 47.5280°N 92.1216°W / 47.5280; -92.1216 ) near Hoyt Lakes which did not mine its own ...
It is home to U.S. Steel's KeeTac taconite mining and processing plant. Kinney (pop. 169) is an old mining boomtown on the Iron Range, between Buhl and Mountain Iron. Mountain Iron (pop. 2,869) is home to Minntac, the world's largest taconite processing plant. Nashwauk (pop. 983) is a small town between Grand Rapids and Hibbing, 4 miles from ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently took steps to limit emissions from taconite mines. But proposals to build Minnesota's first sulfide-ore mine to extract copper and nickel near the ...
The mines and cities comprise part of what is known as Minnesota's Iron Range, specifically the Mesabi Range. Taconite is a derivation of the word Taconic, which is related to the Taconic Mountains of the eastern United States and contain similar geologic formations.
The passage of the amendment accelerated the creation of the taconite mining industry in Northern Minnesota. The Eveleth Taconite Company was formed in 1964 and on April 8, 1966, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald took on the first load of Eveleth taconite pellets, about 23,000 long tons (23,000 t; 26,000 short tons). The taconite era on the Missabe had ...
Edward Wilson Davis (May 8, 1888 – December 3, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor famous for pioneering early research into taconite.As a researcher at the University of Minnesota, Davis developed an engineering process to economically extract iron ore from hard taconite rocks, making taconite valuable as iron ore for the iron and steel industries.
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