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  2. Clarksville Iron Furnace - Wikipedia

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    Elijah Embree owned an iron ore deposit in Bumpass Cove and ironworks in Embreeville. [2] [3] The furnace was built to smelt iron ore mined in Bumpass Cove together with charcoal produced from the wood of trees cut from woodlands near the furnace. [3] [4] The furnace installation included a furnace stack and a bellows that was powered by a ...

  3. Gogebic Range - Wikipedia

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    The iron comes from the Huronian Ironwood formation. It consists of alternating beds of ferruginous oolitic chert and fine-textured cherty carbonates. Iron minerals make up one third of the formation content, the rest being quartz. The formation was discovered in 1848 by Dr. A. Randall during the Fourth principal meridian survey near Upson ...

  4. Iron Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Iron Mountains are a subrange of the Blue Ridge Mountains.These mountains are located around the common meeting point of Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.. A portion of the Appalachian Trail runs the crest of the Iron Mountains above Watauga Lake and the Watauga River near Elizabethton, Tennessee, and then runs northeasterly by Shady Valley, Tennessee, finally ascending Holston ...

  5. Quartz Vs. Granite: Which Stone Is Right For Your ... - AOL

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    What Is Granite? Whereas quartz countertops are man-made, granite is a naturally occurring stone, quarried from the earth, then cut and polished into the countertop material so many know and love ...

  6. Rockwood, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1880s, Roane Iron purchased a rolling mill in Chattanooga and experimented with steel production, but the Walden Ridge ore proved to be too low-quality for such a process, and the company abandoned its steel venture in 1889. [14] Roane Iron's Rockwood furnace employed a mix of local labor (both caucasian and African-American) and ...

  7. Telluric iron - Wikipedia

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    Telluric iron is largely divided into two groups, depending on the carbon content. Type 1 is a cast-iron typically containing over 2.0% carbon, while type 2 ranges somewhere between wrought iron and a eutectoid steel. Both types tend to handle weathering in the elements very well, but tend to decompose and crumble very quickly in the dry ...

  8. Iron-rich sedimentary rocks - Wikipedia

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    Iron formations can be divided into subdivisions known as: banded iron formations (BIFs) and granular iron formations (GIFs). [ 3 ] The above classification scheme is the most commonly used and accepted, though sometimes an older system is used which divides iron-rich sedimentary rocks into three categories: bog iron deposits , ironstones , and ...

  9. Knoxville Iron Company - Wikipedia

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    The Knoxville Iron Company was an iron production and coal mining company that operated primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and its vicinity, in the late 19th and 20th centuries. [1] The company was Knoxville's first major post-Civil War manufacturing firm, and played a key role in bringing heavy industry and railroad facilities ...