| Indeed, the large bulk shipping carriers are queued up for weeks waiting to load basic ore and other items on the way to China. |
| The traditional method for extracting pure iron from its ore is to heat the ore in a blast furnace with limestone and coke. |
| At the nearby Lady Tennyson small amounts of copper ore averaging twenty-five to thirty percent were also raised. |
| Finding teamsters, to transport the hand picked ore to Port Adelaide for smelting at Swansea, proved a major problem. |
| China has been restructuring its steel industry, increasingly replacing low-grade domestic iron ore with imported iron ore of better quality. |
| Many ore carriers preferred to clear Maryport in ballast, loading at South Wales ports with coal for Spain. |
