1. Iron ore
1.1 Definitions
Iron ores are considered here primarily as a basic raw material for the steel industry (see Box 1).
The remarkable development of the steel industry in the 20th century – world crude steel production rose from 28 to 847 Mt between 1900 and 2000 – is inextricably linked to the discovery and subsequent exploitation of numerous high-grade iron ore deposits (see article
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