ROLE OF ORE MINERALOGY IN SELECTING BENEFICIATION …
The source of the iron in the studied ore sample was in the breakdown of ferromagnesium silicates where iron is present in a ferrous form (Ormo et al., 2004). It was suggested that carbonic acid (resulting from dissolving CO 2 gas in water) weathered the ferromagnesian minerals to form magnesium-iron-carbonate-rich solution.