Steeling ourselves: How Australia can support the transition to ... CSIRO
More than ninety per cent of Australia's current iron ore exports are mined from the deep red weathered Pilbara landscape in Western Australia and over 70 per cent of this material is shipped to China, where it is made into iron in blast furnaces using coke manufactured from coal, then further processed into steel.. Australia mines almost half the world's iron ore and the mineral is ...