| 1. | United States Steel is also a minority stakeholder in Hibbing Taconite.
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| 2. | Pickands Mather was making large profits from taconite within a decade.
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| 3. | Taconite tailings are mostly the mineral quartz, which is chemically inert.
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| 4. | The Taconite Trail leads through State and National Forest land as well.
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| 5. | This practice continues with the companies that mine taconite today.
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| 6. | The quarry produced about 850, 000 tons of taconite pellets each year.
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| 7. | The line is most noted for the presence of heavy taconite unit trains.
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| 8. | Tinklenberg was accused of supporting the use of taconite tailings in transportation aggregate.
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| 9. | The Taconite Trail is most popular as a snowmobile route in the winter.
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| 10. | Key channels or tabular deposits, while the magnetite taconites occur in stratigraphic zones.
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