Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite, mined as an iron ore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In petrography, a name proposed by H. V. Winchell (1896) for cherty or jaspery rock, in places calcareous or quartzitic, associated with the hematites of the Masaba Range, Minnesota.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a low-grade
flint -like iron ore containing 20-30% iron
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All that land is filled with taconite, which is the stuff they turn into iron.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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Jaros said 2,500 pounds of iron ore pellets, also known as taconite, would be extracted from the ship at one time and deposited in an onshore scale.
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Bar tops in the fireplace-warmed "Bulldog Lounge" are made from local taconite rock, flecked with red iron ore; walls are inlaid with Minnesota stone and the decorative panels are made of wood salvaged from old grain elevators.
Why College Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports Darren Everson 2011
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Because it might scare off the two mining companies you have bidding for all that taconite.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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In ten minutes I learned a lot more about taconite than I really wanted to know, but I appreciated the cost of the education so I listened patiently.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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And iron is in a lot of what we use in the world, so taconite equals money.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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He hates Lew Prescott from a long time ago, and he hates the thought of his backyard turning into a taconite dynamite range, so he hired you to stop it by scaring people away from buying the land.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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Apparently, taconite is a Precambrian sedimentary rock—whatever that means—which is usually made up of about 25 to 30 percent iron ore.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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Steinbach told me how most high-grade iron ore had been mined out of the United States by shortly after World War II, so the world turned to taconite as an alternative.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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When I stood up to leave, Steinbach seemed disappointed that all I wanted to do was find out about taconite.
Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010
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