Major Iron-Producing Areas in North America
North AmericaEconomicLocations of major iron-producing areas in North America
USGSA world map shows major iron-producing areas (shaded red) in North America. In Canada: eastern Quebec near Labrador, Vancouver Island, and British Columbia. In the United States: Northern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Minnesota.
Major Iron-Producing Areas in North America | Abyssal clay | Calcareous ooze | Continental (lithogenous) | Diatom | Radiolarian | Specialty crop or livestock farming | Mixed farming | Commercial wheat and other small grain farming | Dairy farming | General farming | Livestock ranching | Irrigated agriculture | Mediterranean agriculture (with irrigation) | Nonfarming | |
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Alaska | 4.76% | 0.351% | |||||||||||||
Northwest Territories | 3.51% | ||||||||||||||
Nunavut | 7.75% | ||||||||||||||
Hawaii | 29.4% | 7.02% | 22.4% | ||||||||||||
British Columbia | 2.00% | ||||||||||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 4.95% | ||||||||||||||
Arizona | 55.8% | 1.74% | |||||||||||||
Utah | 80.7% | 5.63% | 1.50% | ||||||||||||
District of Columbia | 93.5% | 6.49% | |||||||||||||
Florida | 0.488% | 2.42% | 52.7% | ||||||||||||
Idaho | 80.1% | 1.68% | 3.82% | ||||||||||||
New Hampshire | 94.9% | 5.10% | |||||||||||||
Rhode Island | 3.91% | ||||||||||||||
Vermont | 99.4% | ||||||||||||||
Washington | 1.71% | 2.54% | 6.88% | 28.9% | 1.54% | ||||||||||
Wyoming | 95.3% | 3.25% | |||||||||||||
Montana | 13.8% | 79.9% | 1.03% | ||||||||||||
Maine | 1.41% | 11.2% | 78.0% | 10.3% | |||||||||||
North Dakota | 97.2% | 2.79% | |||||||||||||
Kentucky | 4.50% | 95.5% | |||||||||||||
Nova Scotia | 12.7% | 36.7% | 19.0% | ||||||||||||
Virginia | 1.95% | 1.66% | 7.48% | 37.3% | |||||||||||
Delaware | 0.888% | 99.2% | |||||||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 100% | 98.5% | |||||||||||||
Saskatchewan | 44.8% | ||||||||||||||
Mississippi | 100% | ||||||||||||||
West Virginia | 2.88% | 97.1% | |||||||||||||
Nebraska | 46.2% | 15.2% | 29.5% | 3.16% | 1.83% | ||||||||||
Texas | 0.242% | 45.6% | 41.0% | 1.75% | |||||||||||
Missouri | 12.6% | 41.5% | 45.8% | ||||||||||||
Louisiana | 0.456% | 1.85% | 98.0% | 1.56% | |||||||||||
North Carolina | 0.789% | 83.7% | 16.0% | ||||||||||||
Oregon | 10.4% | 1.98% | 53.5% | 1.61% | |||||||||||
New Brunswick | 1.14% | 4.59% | 69.9% | 15.9% | 9.03% | ||||||||||
Alabama | 1.64% | 100% | |||||||||||||
New Mexico | 1.35% | 94.7% | 1.16% | ||||||||||||
Kansas | 20.9% | 64.6% | 5.63% | 8.39% | |||||||||||
Wisconsin | 3.92% | 95.5% | |||||||||||||
New Jersey | 0.212% | 65.3% | 34.4% | ||||||||||||
South Carolina | 0.109% | 99.9% | |||||||||||||
Michigan | 3.89% | 5.98% | 64.0% | ||||||||||||
Alberta | 14.2% | 16.7% | 1.37% | ||||||||||||
Connecticut | 99.9% | ||||||||||||||
Pennsylvania | 1.67% | 1.55% | 88.8% | 9.67% | |||||||||||
Colorado | 17.8% | 67.2% | 9.64% | 3.65% | |||||||||||
Nevada | 95.3% | ||||||||||||||
Massachusetts | 0.884% | 11.7% | 98.2% | ||||||||||||
Georgia | 99.9% | ||||||||||||||
New York | 4.91% | 2.58% | 2.90% | 6.80% | |||||||||||
Maryland | 1.35% | 35.0% | 33.2% | 11.4% | |||||||||||
Québec | 1.05% | 1.00% | 1.28% | ||||||||||||
Manitoba | 14.1% | 4.24% | |||||||||||||
Oklahoma | 67.7% | 1.43% | 15.1% | 9.41% | 6.32% | ||||||||||
Tennessee | 42.6% | 57.4% | |||||||||||||
Ontario | 0.313% | 1.82% | 8.82% | 2.80% | |||||||||||
California | 0.884% | 30.0% | 2.07% | 42.1% | 4.51% | ||||||||||
Arkansas | 74.6% | 7.82% | 2.70% | ||||||||||||
South Dakota | 25.4% | 18.2% | 56.3% | ||||||||||||
Ohio | 12.6% | 39.3% | 48.1% | ||||||||||||
Indiana | 67.6% | 32.4% | |||||||||||||
Minnesota | 1.15% | 17.0% | 7.67% | 56.4% | |||||||||||
Iowa | 99.5% | ||||||||||||||
Illinois | 1.38% | 89.2% | 2.58% | 6.84% | |||||||||||
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