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How old is iron ore?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Most of the world's important iron ore resources occur in iron-rich sedimentary rocks known as banded iron formations (BIFs) which are almost exclusively of Precambrian age (i.e. greater than 600 million years old). Some iron ore deposits were formed more recently.

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