| The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution. |
| The traditional method for extracting pure iron from its ore is to heat the ore in a blast furnace with limestone and coke. |
| China has been restructuring its steel industry, increasingly replacing low-grade domestic iron ore with imported iron ore of better quality. |
| Indeed, the large bulk shipping carriers are queued up for weeks waiting to load basic ore and other items on the way to China. |
| With Finex, coal and ore are turned into iron without coking and sintering. |
| The Mesabi Iron Range contains some 110 miles of small towns built at the turn of the last century along a seam of iron ore called taconite. |
