I guess that would be a good place to start, wouldn't it?
Taconite is
a hard, iron-bearing rock formed more than a billion years ago when this region
was covered by a great sea. Minnesota's taconite belt, which varies from one to
three miles wide and as much as 500 feet thick, extends northeastward from the
Grand Rapids area up to Babbitt, where the mine that feeds the Silver Bay
processing operations is located. We mine the taconite, extract and concentrate
the iron, form it into pellets and ship it out. Northshore has the capacity to
produce up to 4.8 million tons of iron ore pellets annually, depending on the
type of pellet. The next step in the tour will show you how it works...
Taconite is
a hard, iron-bearing rock formed more than a billion years ago when this region
was covered by a great sea. Minnesota's taconite belt, which varies from one to
three miles wide and as much as 500 feet thick, extends northeastward from the
Grand Rapids area up to Babbitt, where the mine that feeds the Silver Bay
processing operations is located. We mine the taconite, extract and concentrate
the iron, form it into pellets and ship it out. Northshore has the capacity to
produce up to 4.8 million tons of iron ore pellets annually, depending on the
type of pellet. The next step in the tour will show you how it works...