To turn iron ore into iron requires a fuel and a flux, frequently coal and limestone. It usually costs less money to ship the iron ore than it does the coal and the limestone, especially if those two are close together.
So shipping costs are the reason.
The U.S. produced about $1.21 billion worth of usable iron ore in 2001, down from the $1.56 billion shipped in 2000.
The biggest export is iron ore it is shipped alot to china
Minnesota produces about 70-percent of the iron ore in the United States. Michigan produces the bulk of the other 25-percent. Minnesota produces approximately 40-million tons of iron ore annually.
Iron ore is extracted from the ground through a process known as mining. This involves drilling, blasting, and excavating the ore from the earth's crust. Once the iron ore is extracted, it is crushed and processed to remove impurities before being shipped to steel mills for further refinement and processing.
Iron ore is extracted via mining methods such as open-pit or underground mining. Once extracted, the ore is crushed and then separated from impurities using magnetic separation or flotation. The refined iron ore is then processed in blast furnaces to produce molten iron, which is further refined into steel.
The ore of iron is called hematite.
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Land with rich deposits of iron ore is called an iron ore reserve or iron ore deposit.
Iron Ore fines are Iron Ore that have been crushed to under 10mm. Iron Ore pellets are Iron Ore fines that have been concentrated and bonded together to form small balls, or pellets.
Loaded into a ship in Duluth, MN on Lake Superior, then sailed to Lake Erie.
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In Minecraft,in order to get iron ore out of a mined block of iron you need to smelt the iron ore block in a furnace.