iron ore

See also: ironore and iron-ore

English

Alternative forms

• iron-ore
• ironore (rare)

Noun

iron ore (countable and uncountable, plural iron ores)

1. (mining) A mineral deposit from which iron can be viably extracted.

Translations

ore containing iron

• Arabic: خَام اَلْحَدِيد m (ḵām al-ḥadīd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵礦／铁矿 (zh) (tiěkuàng), 鐵礦石／铁矿石 (zh) (tiěkuàngshí)

• Czech: železná ruda f
• Danish: jernmalm (da) c
• Dutch: ijzererts (nl)
• Esperanto: fererco, ferŝtono
• Finnish: rautamalmi (fi)
• French: minerai de fer m
• German: Eisenerz (de) n
• Ido: fer-erco (io)
• Irish: iarnmhian f, amhiarann m
• Italian: minerale ferroso m
• Japanese: 鉄鉱 (てっこう, tekkō), 鉄鉱石 (ja) (てっこうせき, tekkōseki)
• Korean: 철광석 (ko) (cheolgwangseok)
• Limburgish: iezerèrs
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төмрийн хүдэр (tömriin xüder)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠷ ᠦᠨ
  ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷ (temür-ün küder)

• Navajo: tsé ndaaz
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jernmalm m

  Nynorsk: jarnmalm m, jernmalm m

• Polish: ruda żelaza f
• Portuguese: minério de ferro m
• Russian: желе́зная руда́ (ru) f (želéznaja rudá)
• Spanish: mineral de hierro (es) m
• Swedish: järnmalm (sv) c
• Ukrainian: залізна руда́ f (zalizna rudá)

See also

• iron ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia