Iron ore pellets

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All material is in English.

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object

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2011 December 8

Description Level:

File

End Date:

2011 December 8

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2011 December 8

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English

Physical Description:

C: 4.1 cm

D: 1.3 cm

Conservation Notes:

conservation priority: needs no work

curatorial priority: needed in future for exhibit or loan

potential threat to collection: health concerns for handling and inhalation (refer to MSDS)

Notes:

- original file number: 026

- examiner: M. McMillan

- collected from Algoma Steel (Essar Steel)

- late 90s

- taconite ore was being shipped on the Edmund Fitzgerald when it sank

- taconite ore is very similar to iron ore and was used for a short time in the 1900s when it was assumed that iron ore deposits had been exhausted

rec_shelfloc:

2011-072-008

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Keith Miller Collection of the S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald

Container Number:

008

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