how is iron ore distributed?
Around 95% of the worlds iron ores are on the ocean floor in strata known as Banded Iron Formations. The remaining 5% is on the continent, most likely in its oxidised form.
Iron is the most widely used. Iron ore is mainly used for iron and steel industry, smelting iron and steel according to the different carbon content. The so-called iron ore deposits are the main target of industrial development and utilization. Iron ore beneficiation plant is generally divided into several stages, crushing, grinding, classification and separating. How can we design our iron ore processing plant? Maybe a professional manufacturer and supplier is one of the best choices. Before we talk about designing of iron ore processing plant, we need learn the working flow of iron ore processing first. Raw iron ore will be sent to primary crushing equipment first. In primary crushing equipment, we can crush them into small particles. After primary crushing, the secondary and tertiary crushing equipment will crush iron ores into the finesse size which is below 12mm.
Iron ore is distributed over the Earth according to what was on the bottom of the ocean at the time of the great oxygen production. Without oxygen, iron dissolves in water. When algae started making oxygen, all that iron rusted, and fell to the bottom of all seas. The great iron ore deposits of today are just sea floors having been up-welled onto the continents of today. The distribution is simply a matter tectonic movement of the ancient ocean floors.
