Separating minerals from waste | Mining of mineral resources ...
A machine called a continuous miner at work at the coal face. Room and pillar mining. ... We will discuss the extraction of iron from iron ore as an example. Extraction of iron. Iron atoms are found in the compounds FeO, Fe 2 O 3 and Fe 3 O 4 and in rocks like haematite and magnetite. South Africa is the seventh largest producer of iron ore in ...