Which country does the resource of iron come from?

Answer 1

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 (Fe3O4), hematite (Fe2O3), 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

MINING

World consumption of iron ore grows 10% per annum on average with the main consumers being China, Japan, Korea, the United States and the European Union.

Iron ore mining methods vary by the type of ore being mined. There are four main types of iron ore deposits worked currently, depending on the mineralogy and geology of the ore deposits. These are magnetite, titanomagnetite, massive hematite and pisolitic ironstone deposits.

Banded iron formations (BIF) are fine grained metamorphosed sedimentary rocks composed predominantly of magnetite and silica (as quartz). Banded Iron formations are locally known as taconite within North America

Occasionally granite and ultrapotassic igneous rocks segregate magnetite crystals and form masses of magnetite suitable for economic concentration. A few iron ore deposits, notably in Chile, are formed from volcanic flows containing significant accumulations of magnetite phenocrysts. Chilean magnetite iron ore deposits within the Atacama Desert have also formed alluvial accumulations of magnetite in streams leading from these volcanic formations

Hematite iron ore deposits are currently exploited on all continents, with the largest intensity of exploitation in South America, Australia and Asia. Most large hematite iron ore deposits are sourced from metasomatically altered banded iron formations and rarely igneous accumulations

In Australia iron ore is won from three main sources: pisolite "channel iron deposit" ore derived by mechanical erosion of primary banded-iron formations and accumulated in alluvial channels such as at Pannawonica, Western Australia; and the dominant metasomatically-altered banded iron formation related ores such as at Newman, the Chichester Range, the Hamersley Range and Koolyanobbing, Western Australia. Other types of ore are coming to the fore recently, such as oxidised ferruginous hardcaps, for instance laterite iron ore deposits near Lake Argyle in Western Australia.

The total recoverable reserves of iron ore in India are about 9,602 million tones of hematite and 3,408 million tones of magnetite. Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Orissa, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu are the principal Indian producers of iron ore

Answer 2

Major producers of iron ore include Australia, Brazil, China, Russia, and India.

Answer 3

Iron is one of the most common elements of Earth. But as far as commercial iron-ores, China, Brazil, Australia and India are the biggest producers.

Answer 4

Now since all of the best sources of IRON...the most important composition to produce Steel....has already been identified by previous respondents...

I wish to add that THESE ARE THE COUNTRIES (China itself, India, Australia, Brazil, and even Russia so near neighbor....are the most important FACTORS TO BRING UP AND MAKE REAL THE DREAM OF CHINA TO BOOM ITS REAL BAROMETER OF PROGRESS.....INFRASTRUCTURES!!!

And mind you...with such big demand of steel to generate and build China's real symbols of Progress...the cost of steel in the world shall be tremendous for low and third countries to be able to avail....so progress on the other side of the world shall in effect may deemed hampered....to give China and India...to hasten their goals....

Answer 5

the US had a head start, all the water in LA is taken from 3rd world. Also there is a better climate and 3rd world countriess are more specialised in producing crops which are of lower value than such products like steel and cars that the US produce

Answer 6

Belgium

Answer 7

add Russia to previous posters list

Answer 8

yeah,China.Brazil,Astralia,INDIA,etc