The bauxite industry's significance to Guinea's economy has grown in recent years after development of huge
iron ore deposits in its forested interior stalled when global commodities prices crashed in 2014.
The state government has given its tick of approval for Rio Tinto to develop more
iron ore deposits at the mining giant's Western Turner Syncline operation near Tom Price.
Microbes in Kabuno Bay metabolize iron and grow at rates high enough to indicate their ancient equivalents deposited some of the world's largest
sedimentary iron ore deposits.
This is a noteworthy goal considering the fact that Japan doesn't have coal or
iron ore deposits of any significance.
TheWA government's unexplained rejection of Cazaly Resources Ltd's claim to the
Shovelanna iron ore deposit in the Pilbara could deflect investment from the state's resources sector and, for the first time, raised the real spectre of sovereign risk.
Billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has been picking up
iron ore deposits which China steelmakers left behind in the last boom.
BC Iron's undeveloped
Buckland iron ore deposit is set to fall back under the management of Alwyn Vorster, the former Iron Ore Holdings boss.
This compared with the mining boom in which Australia and Brazil's
rich iron ore deposits made them the only beneficiaries of China's rapid industrialization.
Researchers from the University of Tübingen have been able to show for the first time how microorganisms contributed to the formation of the world's
biggest iron ore deposits.
These strategic industries, he revealed, include an iron and steel industry, which will exploit Ghana's
iron ore deposits at Oppon Manso and Sheini, near Tamale, and facilitate the manufacture of machine parts and equipment.
US$ 2.4 billion has been committed to develop the Mesa A and Brockman 4
iron ore deposits in the Pilbara in Western Australia..
The microbes metabolize iron and grow at rates high enough to indicate their ancient equivalents were capable of depositing some of the world's largest
sedimentary iron ore deposits, known as banded iron formations.
With Government determined to exploit the country's bauxite and
iron ore deposits, with the Ghana Integrated Bauxite and Aluminum Development Authority set to spearhead this, President Akufo - Addo was delighted about the progress made in a novel technology being promoted by UMaT, which involves the use of plastic waste to upgrade bauxite ore to yield 90 % alumina, as against the present grade of 40 % to 45 %.
FeOOH is found in
iron ore deposits that exist in bogs, so it could easily move into the deep Earth at plate tectonic boundaries, as could samples of ferric oxide, Fe2O3, which along with water will also form the pyrite - like iron oxide under deep lower mantle conditions.