Where is most of the iron ore in the USA currently mined?
It makes me sad. I hope he gets a BETTER offer.
If you are on an airplane and see a garb of MUSLIMS, WOULDN'T you be afraid? We can't help it. If he would have said he wasn't afraid, he would be LYING.
Political correctness has gone so far it seems there is no room for honesty anymore in the media. It's ridiculous. Anyone who is honest would probably have said something similar to what Juan Williams said concerning the situation being discussed.
Among the world’s best known deposits of iron is the Mesabi Range of northeastern Minnesota. Mesabi is an Ojibwa name meaning giant. It's a giant area of low rolling hills. This deposit was discovered by Leonidas Merritt and his brothers in 1887 and mining began in 1892. Other iron ranges lie nearby ? the Vermilion to the northeast, the Cuyuna to the south, the Gogebic, Marquette, and Menoninee Ranges in the upper peninsula of Michigan. These are 'banded' (stratified) iron and silica formations of Precambrian age ? the only time such iron formations were created. Exactly what was going on at that time is a matter of speculation ? but this much we know: the several massive deposits of iron found on earth were formed during this Precambrian time period. They also contain some of the earliest known fossils ? Stromatolites ? some of them likely to be of algal origin. The interbedded deposits of iron, chert, siliceous shale, slate, and carbonate rocks date from the Cryptozoic time of the Pre-Cambrian, some 1700 to 3000 million years BP (before present). No banded iron formations are known in younger rock masses. One theory states that at this early time, the atmosphere of earth was deficient in oxygen, and the iron and silica weathered from existing rock was transported to ocean basins with no oxidation. Here, they were precipitated directly or indirectly by biologic processes to form the silica-rich iron deposits. Liberation of oxygen by the ancient algae possibly played an important role in all of this.
