Ore City Independent School District
Ore City Independent School District
Ore City Independent School District is a public school district based in Ore City, Texas (USA) that serves most of the citizenry surrounding Lake O' the Pines. Located in northeastern Upshur County, the district extends into small portions of Marion and Harrison counties. Ore City ISD has three campuses - Ore City High (Grades 9-12), Ore City Middle (Grades 6-8), and Ore City Elementary (Grades PK-5). The Ore City Elementary school is currently Exemplary The Ore City Middle school is currently Exemplary The Ore City High school is currently Recognized In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.
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Where can aluminum be found in nature?
the free metal can not . too reactive. Found in many rocks, and the ore used is its oxide
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Spathic iron ore
Although spathic (carbonate) iron ores, such as siderite, have been economically important for steel production, they are far from ideal as an ore. Their hydrothermal mineralisation tends to form them as small ore lenses, often following steeply dipping bedding planes.[i] This makes them not amenable to opencast working, and increases the cost of working them by mining with horizontal stopes. As the individual ore bodies are small, it may also be necessary to duplicate or relocate the pit head machinery, winding engine and pumping engine, between these bodies as each is worked out. This makes mining the ore an expensive proposition compared to typical ironstone or haematite opencasts.[ii] The recovered ore also has drawbacks. The carbonate ore is more difficult to smelt than a haematite or other oxide ore. Driving off the carbonate as carbon dioxide requires more energy and so the ore 'kills' the blast furnace if added directly. Instead the ore must be given a preliminary roasting step. Developments of specific techniques to deal with these ores began in the early 19th century, largely with the work of Sir Thomas Lethbridge in Somerset. His 'Iron Mill' of 1838 used a three-chambered concentric roasting furnace, before passing the ore to a separate reducing furnace for smelting. Details of this Mill were the invention of Charles Sanderson, a steel maker of Sheffield, who held the patent for it. These differences between spathic ore and haematite have led to the failure of a number of mining concerns, notably the Brendon Hills Iron Ore Company. Spathic iron ores are rich in manganese and have negligible phosphorus. This led to their one major benefit, connected with the Bessemer steel-making process. Although the first demonstrations by Bessemer in 1856 had been successful, later attempts to reproduce this were infamously failures. Work by the metallurgist Robert Forester Mushet discovered that the reason for this was the nature of the Swedish ores that Bessemer had innocently used, being very low in phosphorus. Using a typical European high-phosphorus ore in Bessemer's converter gave a poor quality steel. To produce high quality steel from a high-phosphorus ore, Mushet realised that he could operate the Bessemer converter for longer, burning off all the steel's impurities including the unwanted phosphorus and the essential carbon, but then re-adding carbon, with manganese, in the form of a previously obscure ferromanganese ore with no phosphorus, spiegeleisen. This created a sudden demand for spiegeleisen. Although it was not available in sufficient quantity as a mineral, steelworks such as that at Ebbw Vale in South Wales soon learned to make it from the spathic siderite ores. For a few decades, spathic ores were now in demand and this encouraged their mining. In time though, the original 'acidic' liner, made from siliceous sandstone or ganister, of the Bessemer converter was replaced by a 'basic' liner in the developed Gilchrist Thomas process. From the 1880s demand for the ores fell once again and many of their mines, including those of the Brendon Hills, closed soon after.
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Which mineral, ore or metal can be exclusively found on Earth and not anywhere else?
Probably the opposite is true, that is, certain elements missing in the Earth periodic table are present in some other planets. Recently, element 117 was "created". It is thought also that an island of stability exist in the range of supermassive elements that typically are unstable. Perhaps they exists in other celestial bodies.
