Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

The newly opened block holds reserves estimated at 141 thousand tons of iron ore with an average iron content exceeding 59%.

Electrolysis, rather than smelting, for extracting iron from its ores is being developed by the Ford Motor Co. Reason: conventional smelting is not economical in the U.S. for ores which assay less ...