East of the Mississippi in the USA, iron ores tend to be residual rocks in sedimentary clay, and except for the occasional igneous intrusion of magnetite such as the Cranberry ore of western North Carolina (and various other highly localized magnetite intrusions in Arkansas, Missouri, New Jersey, and a few other places), you are far more likely ... More @Wikipedia
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