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What is Iron-Ore?
What is Iron Ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be
economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and
vary in colour from dark grey, bright yellow, deep purple, to rusty red.
The iron itself is usually found in the form of magnetite, hematite,
goethite, limonite or siderite. Hematite is also known as "natural ore".
The name refers to the early years of mining, when certain hematite ores
contained 66% iron and could be fed directly into iron making blast
furnaces. Iron ore is the raw material used to make pig iron, which is
one of the main raw materials to make steel. 98% of the mined iron ore
is used to make steel.
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