Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alloy of iron; a chemical mixture of some metal with iron.
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Examples
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Renova, owned by Russian billionaire Victor Vekselberg, is undertaking a feasibility study for the development of a mine and sinter [cause a powder to coalesce into a solid through heating] plant in the Northern Cape, a ferro-alloy smelter at Coega and the export of bulk manganese ore through the new Port of Ngqura adjacent to the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) near Port
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The ferro-alloy industry's additional requirements are sourced offshore, mainly from China.
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The plant is expected to enable the company to expand its market coke production by about 450,000 mt a year for the domestic ferro-alloy industry, making the sector virtually self-sufficient of imported market coke.
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South Africa's ferro-alloy total market coke demand is one million mt a year, of which Ispat Iscor, at present, supplies some
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Zimbabwe's primary export goods were tobacco and ferro-alloy minerals, accounting for 28.3 percent and 7.5 percent respectively of total export earnings.
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While the need for electrification was needed, the global competitiveness of power intensive industries such as the ferro-alloy and gold mining industries, would be seriously affected by a rise in one of the major cost elements.
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Certain ores of special grades, and ores of other minerals of the ferro-alloy group required in steel making, however, must be imported from foreign sources; this matter has been discussed above.
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States of fertilizers and ferro-alloy minerals which are ordinarily imported; and without understanding the severe limitations imposed by the foreign situation, he might find himself with a property, sound from
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Each one of the ferro-alloy minerals may be regarded as being in the nature of a key mineral for the iron and steel industry, and the control of deposits of these minerals is a matter of international concern.
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If the few countries possessing adequate supplies of high-grade ferro-alloy minerals, for instance, were to restrict their distribution by tariffs or other measures, the resulting cost to civilization through the handicapping of the steel industry would be a large one.
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