Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

Electrolysis, rather than smelting, for extracting iron from its ores is being developed by the Ford Motor Co. Reason: conventional smelting is not economical in the U.S. for ores which assay less ...

Iron ore describes any rock or mineral deposit that contains enough metallic iron to make extraction worthwhile. These rocks ...