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Ore is a deposit in Earth’s crust of one or more valuable minerals. The most valuable ore deposits contain metals crucial to industry and trade, like copper, gold, and iron.

Earth's most important iron ore deposits are found in sedimentary rocks. They formed from chemical reactions that combined iron and oxygen in marine and fresh waters.

Iron ore is a rock from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

Iron is the backbone of the world we have built around us and it is the basic ingredient of steel (iron plus carbon).

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Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has knocked back the development of two iron ore projects in the state.

Proposed mining projects vary according to the type of metals or materials to be extracted from the earth.