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A nearby outcrop of a flintlike rock called chert, they believe, was the source for many of the stone tools they found: long, triangular blades shaped with six or seven deliberate, strategic strikes.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2011

It mines taconite around Babbitt, Minn., then ships the flintlike rock 50 miles to Silver Bay, on the shores of Lake Superior.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then engineers devised a method of extracting iron from crushed taconite, a flintlike rock that contains some 25% iron.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 7:30 a.m. on each working day, Sherman Adams was at his plain metal desk in the uncarpeted, uncurtained office that seemed as flintlike and efficient as the man who was occupying it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Malcolm Neil sat like a graven image, no expression showing on his flintlike face nor in his eyes.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward