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Adamantite: Various A metal ore in many fictional universes. In Final Fantasy it is used to make armor; its source is in another world; it can contain great amounts of energy. In World of Warcraft, it is a rare ore used to make weapons and armor of uncommon, rare and epic
Mining near Chiatura. In 1972, facilities put into operation in Chiatura included new mines equipped with ore-dressing plants, a central final concentration plant for processing low-grade manganese ores into higher-grade ores, a central flotation plant, a plant for dressing carbonate ores, and a number of enterprises designed for improving the grade of ores.
Erie Mining Company previously mined ore and testing to mine new minerals is ongoing. Keewatin (pop. 1,068) is between Nashwauk and Hibbing. 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.
By 1912 the mine was at a depth of 1,250 feet (381 m). [4] When the mine closed, level 27 was being developed at 2,341 feet (713.5 m) below the surface and the entire underground workings consisted of more than fifty miles of drifts, adits, and raises. In 1965, US Steel donated the Soudan Mine to the State of Minnesota to use for educational ...
The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district and mountain range in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore. It is the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota. First described in 1866, it is the chief iron ore mining district in the United ...
Plummer Mine Headframe in Iron County Wisconsin Gogebic County Gogebic Geologic Map Old specimen of "tree-trunk" hematite from the Montreal Mine in the Gogebic Range, size 15.8×6.2×2.7 centimeters (6.2×2.4×1.1 in)
The largest mine in the range, Soudan, was closed in 1962, and the last mine in the Ely area closed in 1964. [ 2 ] Despite the effort needed for the deep mining Soudan mine, the ore obtained was worth the effort; the quality of the hematite ore was so pure that two pieces could be welded. [ 1 ]
Magnitnaya Mountain is a group of mountains: Atach, Dalnyaya, Uzyanka (the Magnetic itself), Ezhovka and Beryozovaya. The area is approximately 25 km 2.. Magnitnaya is located in the band of sedimentary (limestones, sandstones) and effusive strata of Lower Carboniferous age, broken by granite, diabases and other eruptive rocks.