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TIL: The "Great Oxygenation Event" is responsible for Minnesota's Mesabi Range and other commercially viable iron deposits around the Great Lakes and the world. Iron dissolved in ancient seas precipitated during the Precambrian age forming thick layers of sedimentary rock.

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