| 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. |
| Diamond drilling bits were used in prospecting, and thermal ore processing allowed winter panning in placer mines. |
| The traditional method for extracting pure iron from its ore is to heat the ore in a blast furnace with limestone and coke. |
| With Finex, coal and ore are turned into iron without coking and sintering. |
| China has been restructuring its steel industry, increasingly replacing low-grade domestic iron ore with imported iron ore of better quality. |
| Some ore deposit types, such as volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, can contain both syngenetic and epigenetic mineralization. |
