Different Types of Iron Ore 911metallurgist.com
Oct 05, 2016 Taconite, another name for ferruginous chert. Origin of Iron Ore-Bodies. The ore-bodies, consisting of hematite and limonite, with sometimes a little magnetite, have been formed by two distinct processes: (a) the weathering of siderite into limonite and hematite, as at the outcrop of the original Helen Mine, Michipicoten area;