| 21. | By 1955, the Reserve Mining Company complex was built to extract iron from taconite.
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| 22. | The bedrock, known as taconite, also contained iron, but in a much lower concentration.
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| 23. | The Taconite State Trail and a spur to the picnic area provide a snowmobile route through the park.
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| 24. | In the 1950s, Davis's research was used to create several taconite processing plants in northeast Minnesota.
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| 25. | The laboratory is also developing an alternative way to remove fine materials that rub off taconite pellets during shipping.
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| 26. | In the 1930s, Pickands Mather began researching how to turn taconite into a useable form of iron ore.
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| 27. | Opened in 1965 by Eveleth Taconite Company, a subsidiary of the iron formation of the Paleoproterozoic Biwabik Iron Formation.
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| 28. | After the Taconite Tater Tot Hotdish " and Walz taking second with his " Chicken Mushroom Wild Rice Hotdish ".
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| 29. | Although the pure ore is now depleted, taconite mining remains strong using processes developed locally to save the industry.
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| 30. | Perhaps not as dramatically as the taconite industry, the forest products industry was similarly impacted by the difficult economy.
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