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The Gogebic Range is an elongated area of iron ore deposits located within a range of hills in northern Michigan and Wisconsin just south of Lake Superior. It extends from Lake Namakagon in Wisconsin eastward to Lake Gogebic in Michigan, or almost 80 miles.
Montreal was originally incorporated as the Village of Hamilton, [7] on or about 1917, and was the first village formed in Iron County. [8] Montreal, as it was named upon its incorporation as a city on April 1, 1924, [7] was named for the Montreal Mining Company, which had several iron ore mines in the area during the late 1800s. During the ...
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.
US iron ore made up 2.5 percent of the total mined worldwide in 2015. Employment as of 2014 was 5,750 in iron mines and iron ore treatment plants. [3] US iron ore mining is dominated by the Precambrian banded iron formation deposits around Lake Superior, in Minnesota and Michigan; such deposits were also formerly mined in Wisconsin. For the ...
No rocks from the Paleogene or Neogene period are known from Wisconsin; however, abundant Quaternary deposits can be found as a result of the last Ice Age. The most recent glacial cycle, the Wisconsin Glaciation, began about 31,500 years ago and receded from the state by around 7,000 years ago. During this time the Lake Michigan Lobe and the ...
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Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. WI-9, "Montreal Company Location Historic District, Montreal, Iron County, WI", 4 data pages; List of buildings, from Wisconsin Historical Society's Architecture and History Inventory
World-wide distribution of MVT deposits (red), clastic sediment-hosted (green), and unclassified (blue) lead-zinc deposits. Source: USGS. Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits are important and highly valuable concentrations of lead and zinc sulfide ores hosted within carbonate (limestone, marl, dolomite) formations and which share a common genetic origin.