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Iron ore was the third-highest-value metal mined in the United States, after gold and copper. [2] Iron ore was mined from nine active mines and three reclamation operations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah. Most of the iron ore was mined in northern Minnesota's Mesabi Range. Net exports (exports minus imports) were 3.9 million tons.
Metallic iron is virtually unknown on the Earth's surface except as iron-nickel alloys from meteorites and very rare forms of deep mantle xenoliths.Although iron is the fourth-most abundant element in the Earth's crust, composing about 5%, the vast majority is bound in silicate or, more rarely, carbonate minerals, and smelting pure iron from these minerals would require a prohibitive amount of ...
Added to NRHP. May 25, 1973. The Hope Furnace is a historic blast furnace in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located along State Route 278, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the village of Zaleski, [1] it is one of two extant iron furnaces in Vinton County. Between 1854 and 1874, the furnace was used to smelt iron ore ...
The Iron Range is collectively or individually a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada. Much of the ore-bearing region lies alongside the range of granite hills formed by the Giants Range batholith. [1] These cherty iron ore deposits are Precambrian in the Vermilion Range and middle ...
Benson Mines. The Benson Mine is an iron-ore mine located near Star Lake, a village in the southern St. Lawrence County, New York. The ore body at Benson Mine was discovered in 1810 by engineers conducting a survey for a new military road from Albany to Ogdensburg. [1] In the 1950s, the mine was considered the largest open pit iron-ore mine in ...
The Ohio State University football team won the national championship in 2002 and 2014, and consistently competes for the prize annually. The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series baseball championship in 1990 following their run as the Big Red Machine in the 1970s. The team won the National League Central Division champions in 2010 and 2012.
74001516 [1] Added to NRHP. December 2, 1974. The Shawnee Lookout Archeological District is a historic district in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] Located southwest of Cleves in Hamilton County 's Miami Township, [2] the district is composed of forty-six archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2,000 acres (810 ha ...
The data for graduation rate lags a year behind, so this year's Report Card will feature the four-year graduation rate from the class of 2023 and the five-year rate for the class of 2022. Early ...