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Iron ore was traditionally used to make metal poles. These metal poles would be used as support beams in buildings for example.
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What is the definition for ore?
Ore is a mineral that can be refined into some useful substance, which is usually a metal. Iron ore is the rock from which iron is refined.
What is a common way that people make useful things out of iron ore?
processing iron ore into metal for construction
Why is iron ore mined?
it's a useful resource
A rock that contains a metal or economically useful mineral is called a?
This is a raw material (feedstock).
What Minerals can be classified according to their use what classification is given to a mineral that contains a useful amount of a particular element such as iron?
A mineral that contains a useful amount of a particular element is an ore. An ore containing iron is called iron ore, such as magnetite (Fe3O4), and hematite (Fe2O3), which contain 70% iron.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_ore
What useful material may be obtained from bauxite what useful material may be obtained from hematite what are bauxite and hematite called since they produce useful material?
Bauxite is aluminum ore, hematite is iron ore.
What types of ore that contains iron?
An ore is a rock that contains minerals that are useful. For an ore to be considered an ore reserve, it must be economically viable (the value of the extracted mineral must exceed the cost of extraction and processing) and must be technically and legally possible to extract.
What is the mineral used to create iron ore?
Iron is the mineral. Iron is an element and as such, is not composed of any other materials, though iron ore comes out of the ground mixed with many other minerals. The ore must then be processed to extract the pure iron for practicle use.
What is the ore of iron?
iron ore
What is an unrefined mineral?
iron ore iron ore
What is the process turns ore into useful metals?
It depends on the ore. ******** Refining. Well, we can taking iron ore for example. Iron ore is one of the most common minerals in the earth' crust. Main iron ores are magnetite, hematite, limonite, iron silicate ore, iron silicate mineral, etc. Iron ore beneficiation process usually consists of three stages: they are crushing raw iron ore to small particles, grinding iron ore particles to small powders and concentrating the available iron ore. At the tertiary process, the equipments are quite different from each other for the concentrating methods are different from each other. For example, iron ore producers can choose high-intensity magnetic separation; they can also utilize low-intensity magnetic separation method.
Is iron and iron ore the same?
no they are not the same because iron is a metal that is obtained from its ore called iron ore
