EXTRACTION OF

IRON ORE

G.S.S. SCHOOL
DHANGRALI (PB.)
CLASS 8TH
ALL ABOUT EXTRACTION
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 Among other minerals which will be
sought in northeast Pakistan, iron ore
may be of primary importance. New
deposits of iron would be additions to
those already known at Kalabagh which
are considered to contain sufficient
reserves to supply the Multan iron and
steel plant under construction in 1957.
Limestone for the plant is still being
sought nearby. Indian iron ore output
was estimated at over 2,000,000 tons
for 1957, responding to demands of
increased steel production.
 Japanese interests are surveying some
areas in Borneo, Indonesia, in hopes of
finding sufficient reserves of iron ore to
warrant the development of an open pit
mining operation.The trend of raw-material
producing areas of the world to participate
to a greater degree in the benefits of the
minerals industry was increased, as plans
were evolved to install primary processing
and manufacturing plants for finished and
semifinished metallic products at or near
the site of mineral extraction.

 At the end of World War II, only two

types of uranium ore were considered as
potential sources of the metal; in the
past few years, about 24 types of ore
deposits have been recognized as
worthy of treatment for uranium
extraction.
 At the moment, therefore, more thought
was being given taconite. New scientific
methods were being adopted for
extracting high grade iron ore from
magnetic taconite rock and
concentrating it in a pellet form usable
in blast furnaces.
  The dependence of the world on the
central African nation of Zaïre as its
principal source of cobalt was pointed
up this year when extraction of copper,
and of the associated byproduct cobalt,
was temporarily halted by the warfare in
Shaba manganese ore output between
1976 and 1977, which was chiefly the
result of a massive decrease of output in
Brazil, world production turned slightly
upward in 1978, to an estimated 22.5 m
problems encountered in the sinking of
a shaft may be great, especially if
water-bearing strata need to be pierced.
The water-bearing strata must be
cemented or frozen before excavation
begins, and lining the shaft with
concrete becomes necessary.

GUIDED BY

Kulwinder Singh
Jagpal Singh