Talk:Taconite

Suggestion for expanding this article.
On the Elwyn_Tinklenberg page/section there is a brief mention of this ore (which I had never heard of before) as a politically/environmentally hot issue... "Closer to the Sixth District DFL Convention, Olson's critiques of Tinklenberg grew sharper. Tinklenberg was accused of supporting the use of taconite tailings in transportation aggregate. Tinklenberg contended that, indeed, he did support the use of western Iron Range taconite tailings in transportation aggregate through a University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute program, which was backed by the Environmental Protection Agency. The University's research concluded that taconite tailings from the western side of the Iron Range were safe for use in road construction, unlike the by-product from the eastern side of the Range, which had been linked to an increased risk to cancer.[6] Tinklenberg reiterated that he would only support the sustainable use of western Iron Range taconite tailings as long as the research showed it to be a safe practice."

This is not my area of expertise but someone out there who does understand these issues might be able to somehow add this into the article. 66.102.205.30 (talk) 13:17, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


 * As an Australian iron ore geologist I find that issue non-notable. The potential of health risks is well worth covering in a generic sense; the two likeliest possibilities are airborne microfine silica dust, Silicosis which should be the same across different taconite localities; and asbestos minerals, which can be locally interbedded with banded iron. I don't have expertise or references on the supposed increased risk of cancer. ChrisPer (talk) 04:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

No longer a Stub
This article is much more information than a typical stub-class article would contain. I am removing the stub template. 65.203.128.130 (talk) 17:41, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool North8000 (talk) 17:49, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Reading this otherwise well written article, I was struck by how pointless is the sentence about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. If we had to include every ship that has sunk on every commodity then most articles would be mile long. Ships sinking are not a hazard of Taconite. They are nothing to do with the production of Taconite. It is just irrelevant Op47 (talk) 22:51, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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