Iron
Mining for haematite iron ore recommenced at Marampa mine on 11 February 2010 after 35 years. The mine is owned by London Mining which also owns an exploration license covering 319 km².
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Famous quotes containing the word iron:
“As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
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Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.”
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)