Which country is the largest producer of iron ore?

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asked Mar 25, 2020 in Conservation by lelsonia (460 points)
Which country is the largest producer of iron ore?

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answered Mar 25, 2020 by Shawn (99,990 points)
The country that is the largest producer of iron ore is China.

China is the largest producer as well as importer of Iron Ore when it comes to making steel and Tin from it.

In the year of 2015 China produced 1.3 billion tons of Iron Ore which is equivalent to 44 percent of the entire worlds output of Iron Ore.

China also produces iron and tin from scrap metal that they import from other countries such as USA.

China gets most of it's iron ore through mines in China.

China produced most of it's Iron ore from it's own Iron ore mines in China between March 2015 and March 2016, a total of 1,459.5 million tons of Iron Ore was mined in those China Iron Ore Mines.

China also has some Iron Ore shipped in from places such as Australia, Brazil, India, and South Africa.

China also produces new Iron through use of scrap Iron and Scrap Tin that they have bought and have had imported from the USA and other countries.

If you've ever sold any scrap metal such as scrap iron and scrap tin to a scrap yard then eventually that scrap was likely sent over to China on a scrap metal ship.

But China does still produce it's Iron Ore as of now and likely will continue to do so until they deplete the Iron Ore.

There are lots more Iron Ore in many other places as well.

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