The Metalliferous Ores of the Iron and Steel Industry ¹

Abstract

IN June, 1917, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research published a report dealing with the metalliferous raw materials of the iron and steel industry of the United Kingdom, the Allies, and the neutrals. Its object was to collect and summarise in a form which can easily be consulted as much information as possible from the principal literature pertaining to the sources of iron ores, and other metalliferous ores accessory to the metallurgy of iron and steel; to describe their composition and character, giving analyses where possible, together with indications as to the geographical position and the accessibility of the minerals. The report did not claim to give the results of independent researches, but merely to provide for the inquirer information for which he would otherwise have to search through a great variety of publications and monographs issued by technical and scientific societies and geological surveys. How useful this publication has been to the iron and steel industry is shown by the fact that the stock of copies was almost exhausted three months after publication.