Iron Ore mining companies (22)
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Iron Ore Companies
http://www.kingsgate.com.au/
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What is iron ore?
Iron ore is the rock which iron is extracted. The iron comes in the forms
of magnetite, hematite, goethite, limonite and siderite, and varied colours
from grey, yellow, purple and red. Iron ore is also the raw material used to
make pig iron, which is one of the main raw materials for making steel.
World consumption of iron ore grows 10% per year on average with the main
consumers being China, Japan, Korea, the United States and the European
Union. The major producers of iron ore are China, Brazil, Australia, India,
and Russia. Iron is the world's most commonly used metal. The main
constraint is the position of the iron ore relative to market, the cost of
rail infrastructure to get it to market and the energy cost required to do
so.
As pure iron is virtually non-existent on earth, all sources of iron used by
human industry are iron oxide minerals, mainly hematite. However, in some
situations, more inferior iron ore sources have been used by industrialized
societies when access to high-grade hematite ore was not available.
Mining iron ore
Iron ore mining methods vary by the type of ore being mined. There are
four main types of iron ore deposits worked currently, depending on the
mineralogy and geology of the ore deposits. These are magnetite,
titanomagnetite, massive hematite and pisolitic ironstone deposits. Most
large hematite iron ore deposits are sourced from metasomatically altered
banded iron formations and rarely igneous accumulations. Hematite iron is
typically rarer but it is considerably cheaper and easier to beneficiate and
requires considerably less energy to crush and grind. Hematite ores however
can contain significantly higher concentrations of penalty elements,
typically being higher in phosphorus, water content and aluminium.
The iron-ore bearing rock is first blasted and dug up from open pit mines,
then crushed, smelted in furnaces. To make steel, it is then alloyed with
metals like nickel, chromium, manganese or titanium. These alloys give steel
special properties like electrical resistance, and resistant to wear, rust,
impact, shock or expansion when heated. The cooled steel is shaped and can
be coated with tin, zinc or paint to help protect it from rusting.
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Essel Mining & Industries Ltd.
http://www.adityabirla.com/our_companies/indian_companies/essel_mining.htm
Essel Mining & Industries Ltd. is today one of Indias largest iron ore mining companies in the private sector
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AG-Land Investment Brokers
http://www.aglandbrokers.com/
AG-Land Investment Brokers
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Iron Range Resources - Mining Programs
http://www.ironrangeresources.org/natural/?page=25
Iron Range Resources - Mining Programs
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Iron Range Resources - Natural Resources
http://www.irrrb.org/natural/
Iron Range Resources - Natural Resources
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Lundin Mining Corporation
http://www.lundinmining.com/eng/norrbotten.shtml
Lundin Mining Corporation
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Iron Ore Catalog - Metals Place
http://www.metalsplace.com/metalscatalog/?s=176
A metal traders only stop. Free metals news, board, catalog, prices.
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Iron Ore Deposits Pty. Ltd. a tenement holding company for Opencut Coppergold Mining Pty Ltd
http://www.ironoredeposits.com/
Iron Ore Deposits is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ansett Resources & Industries Pty Ltd with 15 leases in Queensland and 1 in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. These tenement leases hold reserves of in excess of 1 billion tons of ore.
Iron Ore Deposits are presently in negotiation with several parties interested in joint venture production arrangements. Iron Ore Deposits has now successfully negotiated a joint venture arrangement with 2 multinational corporations and are continuing negotiations with other parties.
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MITSUI & CO
http://www.mitsui.com.au/
Our aim is to contribute to iron ore exports to Japan and the rest of the world. Mitsui is an investor in a number of Western Australia's iron ore mines and that investment has been growing in parallel with the iron ore industry in the Pilbara area. Mitsui & Co. (Australia) Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. have been involved in the Robe River Project, which Rio Tinto joins as a major partner, since the project's commencement and hold an effective 33% share of the joint venture. Robe River's production was 54 million tons, while shipments were 52 million tons in FY2006.
The West Angelas iron ore deposit that was developed in 2002 has added another dimension to Robe River's product portfolio. The West Angelas Project has improved Robe's overall competitiveness in the marketplace through enabling Robe to supply not only a high grade iron ore product but also a diversified product base with a significantly high production capacity.
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Rio Tinto Iron Ore
http://www.riotintoironore.com/
Rio Tinto Iron Ore is part of the Rio Tinto Group and comprises operations in Western Australia, Canada, India, Guinea and Brazil. The business maintains sales offices in Asia and Europe. Rio Tinto Iron Ore's corporate headquarters is located in Perth, Western Australia.
In 2007, RTIO accounted for 13 per cent of Rio Tinto's operating assets and 26 per cent of the Group's gross sales revenue. The Iron Ore group accounted for 36 per cent of underlying earnings. Our global operations: Pilbara, Kwinana, Labrador City and Sept-Îles, Simandou, Corumbá, Orissa.
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Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd.
http://www.capelam.com.au/
Cape Lambert Iron Ore Limited (ASX: CFE, AIM: CLIO) is an Australian iron ore and exploration development company, which owns 100% of the Cape Lambert Iron Ore project (the “Project”), located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Project currently has a 1.56 billion tonne JORC compliant magnetite iron ore resource and is at feasibility stage. Resource drilling continued throughout 2007 with the objective of further increasing the resource to enable the development of a standalone, open pit mining operation capable of producing 15Mtpa of magnetite concentrate.
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Fortescue Metals Group Ltd
http://www.fmgl.com.au/
Fortescue is at the driving-edge of the current iron ore rush. Since the Company was formed in 2003, its extraordinary growth has been unparralleled. With a market capitalisation of more than $30 billion and an ever-growing reputation for success, Fortescue is well-positioned to become the next Australian mineral export heavy-weight.
Construction of Fortescue's port, rail and mine project commenced in February 2006 with the turning of the first sod at the Company's port site at Anderson Point in Port Hedland. Just two years later, the open-access rail infrastructure is complete, the Fortescue Herb Elliott Port is operational and the mining operations at the Company's first minesite, known as Cloudbreak, are well underway.
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Iron Ore Holdings
http://www.ironoreholdings.com/
Iron Ore Holdings Ltd (IOH) was established in December 2003 and successfully listed on the ASX in May of 2005. The Company’s strategy is to prove up and mine commercial quantities of Direct Shipping channel iron deposit type iron ore on its tenements in the most prospective part of the Pilbara region, adjacent to BHPBilliton’s and Hamersley Iron’s Yandi and Yandicoogina mines and also Robe River's Mesa J Mine.
Exploration to date has been very successful with the identification of an additional 16 new exposed channel iron deposits which further enhances the prospectivity of IOH’s tenements and is a significant milestone towards our objective of becoming an iron ore producer.
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Kumba Iron Ore
http://www.kumba.co.za/
Kumba Iron Ore is the JSE Ltd's first pure iron ore play. Kumba Iron Ore will thus become a focused producer of high grade iron ore and the fourth largest supplier of seaborne iron ore in the world. Currently, approximately 73% of Kumba Iron Ore’s total annual production is exported to 30 major customers in various geographical regions.
Kumba Iron Ore’s principal operating assets at the time of listing will be the Sishen and Thabazimbi mines. Together, these two mines produce 32Mtpa of iron ore. The combined resources of the two mines exceed 2 billion tonnes of high quality iron ore.
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Mt Gibson Iron Ltd
http://www.mtgibsoniron.com.au/
As Australia's leading independent "pure-play" hematite iron ore producer, Mount Gibson Iron Limited (ASX Code: MGX) is leading the consolidation of the junior iron ore industry, with the successful takeover of Aztec Resources which has built a sustainable platform for future shareholder growth.
With Tallering Peak already operating at its targeted hematite production rate of 3 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa), the Koolan Island hematite mining operation ramping up from 3Mtpa towards its targeted production rate or 4Mtpa, and development and construction of the Extension Hill hematite project about to commence, Mount Gibson is well positioned to take advantage of strong Iron Ore prices.
Mount Gibson has firm commercial relationships with major Chinese steel industry customers, and with continued strong demand and prices the Company and its shareholders are ideally leveraged to benefit from further commodity price rises.
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Gindalbie Metals Ltd
http://www.gindalbie.com.au/
Gindalbie Metals Ltd is an independent Australian iron ore company based in Perth, Western Australia which is developing a portfolio of projects in the State’s Mid West region. Gindalbie’s core asset is the world-class Karara Iron Ore Project, supported by a growing resource base of Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) hematite in multiple deposits and an extensive pipeline of exploration and growth opportunities within a 1,900km2 tenement position.
Gindalbie has completed a Bankable Feasibility Study on Karara and is working towards an initial start-up phase of 2Mtpa of DSO quality hematite production commencing in 2009 and 8Mtpa of high grade magnetite concentrate commencing in 2010. Gindalbie cemented its position as a substantial emerging Australian iron ore producer in 2006 after securing a landmark 50:50 joint venture with one of China’s largest iron ore miners and steel makers, Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corp (“AnSteel”), to finance and develop the A$1.8 billion Karara Iron Ore Project.
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Admiralty Resources
http://www.ady.com.au/
Admiralty Resources is a diversified Australian natural resource exploration and production company further broadening its horizons. It is taking on bigger projects and challenges having diversified mineral interests in Australia, Chile and Argentina. It aspires to be leading niche market chemical company set to prove its mettle.
Admiralty Resources NL has a 60% interest in the Sociedad Contractual Minera Santa Barbara's iron ore mines. 10,876 hectares of iron ore tenements. JORC measured and indicated resource of 41 million tonnes of iron ore with an iron content averaging 13.7%. Production of 100,000 tonnes per month of magnetite iron ore averaging 63.5% iron with phosphorous at 0.06%, silicon at 4% and sulphur at 0.01%.
Rincon Salar Project, Argentina - A world class resource rich in lithium, potassium, sodium and borates. Key resources are lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, lithium hydroxide, potassium chloride, sodium sulphate, boric acid and borates. Resource, due diligence and extraction methods for key resources have been finalised.
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Cleveland-Cliffs Inc
http://www.cleveland-cliffs.com/
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc is an international mining company, the largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America and a major supplier of metallurgical coal to the global steelmaking industry.
The Company operates six iron ore mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada, and three coking coal mines in West Virginia and Alabama. Cliffs also owns 80 percent of Portman Limited, a large iron ore mining company in Australia, serving the Asian iron ore markets with direct-shipping fines and lump ore. In addition, the Company has a 30 percent interest in the Amapá Project, a Brazilian iron ore project, and a 45 percent economic interest in the Sonoma Project, an Australian coking and thermal coal project.
As part of its efforts to develop alternative metallic products, Cliffs is aligned with Kobe Steel to utilize its ITmk3 process in a commercial-scale reduced iron plant that would convert taconite into nearly pure iron in nugget form. This innovative technology has the potential to open new markets by offering an economically competitive supply of iron material for electric arc furnaces.
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Iron Mountain Mining Ltd
http://www.ironmountainmining.com.au/
We are an exploration company focused on unlocking the potential of our quality portfolio of assets in Australia. The company was established primarily to acquire and explore for iron ore. Anybody who has followed the financial press over the last 12 months will be well aware that the export markets for iron ore are strong. In particular the iron ore export market has been bolstered by China’s increasing demand for iron ore.
The Company’s main project in the Burnie – Natone district of Tasmania I believe is particularly exciting. The project area covers known low-phosphorus resources of iron together with identified quartz-vein-hosted copper mineralization. Recent work has identified features which confirm the prospectivity of the area for the potential for Iron Oxide Copper Gold mineralisation similar to the “Olympic Dam” and “Ernest Henry” deposits.
The Company’s Mt Richardson, Bona Well, Windarling East and Kunanalling projects are located in the same region as existing iron ore producing sites that contain similar geological structures to those within the Company’s projects. The Company hopes to find reserves of iron ore in some or all of these projects.
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Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited
http://www.kudremukhore.com/
A Government of India enterprise, KIOCL has the India's largest mining and pelletization complex. The mine is located in the Western Ghats of Karnataka State in the Indian Subcontinent and the Pelletisation facilities at Mangalore, also in Karnataka.
Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited has its own mine and plant facilities to produce 7.5 million tonnes of iron Ore concentrate per year Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited has its own mine and plant facilities to produce 7.5 million tonnes of iron Ore concentrate per year.
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MSPL: Pioneers in mining Iron Ore
http://www.mspllimited.com/
We, MSPL Limited, are an iron ore mining, processing and exporting company over four decades old. According to the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, we were the first private company in India to receive a licence for export of high grade Iron Ore (having a Fe content of 64% or more).
We are also one of India’s leading exporters of high-grade processed Iron Ore to China. We are a flagship company of the Baldota Group of Companies, which are privately owned principally by the Baldota family.
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Robe River
http://www.roberiver.com/
Robe River, a member of the Rio Tinto Group, is one of the world's leading suppliers of iron ore. A significant Western Australian resource company, Robe currently exports over 40 million tonnes of iron ore a year to the highly competitive global steel industry. Robe is strongly committed to being a safe, productive, innovative and responsible member of the community.
Robe is one of the world's most cost effective, consistent and reliable suppliers of iron ore. It operates as a long-standing and highly successful international joint venture, between Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian resources group, Mitsui, a Japanese trading company, and two Japanese steel companies, Sumitomo Metal Industries and Nippon Steel Corporation. Robe currently employs over 950 employees.
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