Iron and the Periodic Table of DEATH
Iron (Fe) Ore, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald*, and the Periodic Table of Death. Actually, it was taconite iron pellets—marbled-sized balls made from Iron (Fe), the most abundant metal in Earth, making up 35% of the Earth’s core (1). To make Taconite, powdered and processed Fe ore is blended with a binder clay, rolled, and fired into a pellet form (2). Taconite pellets were loaded onto the enormous ships that once sailed in abundance across the Great Lakes to the steel mills that made up the blue-collar beating heart of the U.S. in the 1970s. One of those ships was the SS …