This is a list of iron mines.

North America

Canada

Adams Mine Adams Mine is an abandoned open pit iron ore mine located in the Boston Township of the District of Timiskaming, south of Kirkland Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the Canadian Shield. History The mine was ori ...

* Howells Lake-Howells River North mine * KéMag mine * LabMag mine * Lac Otelnuk mine * Lac Ritchie mine *

Mary River Mine The Mary River Mine is an Open-pit mining, open pit Iron ore, iron ore mine on Inuit Owned Land (IOL) operated by the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (BIMC), in the Mary River (Nunavut), Mary River area of the Qikiqtaaluk Region, on Baffin Isla ...

Mont Wright (Quebec) Mont Wright was a mountain in Fermont, Quebec, a site of major iron ore mining operations since the 1970s by Québec Cartier Mining Company. It is located in Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality. Mont Wright itself does not exist anymore; it ...

* Sheps-Perault Lake mine *

Sherman Mine Sherman Mine is a closed open pit mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada. It was a major producer of iron ore, starting production in 1968 and closing in 1990. Sherman was the largest open pit mine in Temagami, consisting of seven open pits known as ...

United States

Benson Mines The Benson Mine is an iron-ore mine located near Star Lake, a village in the southern St. Lawrence County, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New Y ...

* Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum *

Dorney Road Landfill Dorney Road Landfill is a municipal and industrial landfill in Upper Macungie Township and Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania that was polluted with toxic waste from 1952 to 1978. The site is surrounded by rural residences and farmland. The U.S. ...

Franklin Furnace Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, iron, manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, New Jersey, United States. This locale produced more species of minerals (over 300) and more differ ...

* Hibernia mines * Hill-Annex Mine State Park *

Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine The Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, is the largest operating open-pit iron mine in Minnesota. The pit stretches more than long, wide, and deep. It was established in 1895 and was one of the worl ...

* The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York *

Iron Mountain (Utah) Iron Mountain, in southern Iron County, Utah, United States, is the namesake of Iron County. Its summit is at Description The mountain has a long history of iron mining, in the form of magnetite and hematite. Mining at this site goes back to B ...

* Iron Mountain District * Iron Mountain Mine *

Jackson Mine The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine in Negaunee, Michigan, extracting resources from the Marquette Iron Range. The first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, Jackson Mine was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 and listed ...

* Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park *

Lyon Mountain, New York Lyon Mountain is a hamlet and census-designated place located in the town of Dannemora in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 423 at the 2010 census. The northern slopes of Lyon Mountain are in the southern part of the co ...

* Montreal Company Location Historic District *

Mountain Iron Mine Mountain Iron Mine is a former mine in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, United States. Opened in 1892, it was the first mine on the Mesabi Range, which has proved to be the largest iron ore deposit ever discovered in the United States. Mining operat ...

* Paulson Mine * Pioneer Mine *

Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake, sometimes called the Portsmouth Pit, is the deepest lake completely within the state of Minnesota, USA. It has a depth of over 450 feet (137 m), according to the most recent Minnesota DNR data. Lake Superior, ...

* Pyne Mine * Rouchleau Mine *

Sloss Mines The Sloss Mines are a group of mines in southwestern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. They were established by the Sloss Iron and Steel Company and its successor, the Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company, on the southern end of Red Mo ...

* Sterling Lake *

Wenonah, Alabama The Wenonah community (formerly Fossil) was the name of one of a series of Red Mountain ore mining camps for employees of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (TCI). Name The name was chosen by TCI's social science director Marion Whidden as a ...

South America

Bolivia

* El Mutún mine

Brazil

* Alegria mine *

Carajás Mine Carajás may refer to: * Carajás Mine * Carajás Airport * Canaã dos Carajás * Eldorado dos Carajás * Carajás (proposed Brazilian state) * ''Carajas'' (spider) * Karajá or Carajás, an indigenous tribe of Brazil * Gurgel Carajás Gurgel ...

* Corumbá (mine) *

Gongo Soco Gongo Soco was a gold mine in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to the east of Belo Horizonte in the mid-19th century. It was worked by skilled miners from Cornwall and by less skilled Brazilian labourers and slaves. Machinery powered by a water ...

* Minas-Rio *

S11D S11D, or Serra Sul, is an iron ore mining project undertaken by Vale in Serra dos Carajás, Brazil. It is the largest iron ore mine project in the world, at 90 million tonnes per year. Project The project is a $19.5 billion investment, which is ...

Chile

* Dominga *

El Algarrobo El Algarrobo is an iron mine in north-central Chile. Geologically it is an iron oxide-apatite (IOA) type of deposit. El Algarrobo is part of a wider province of iron ores known as the Chilean Iron Belt The Chilean Iron Belt is a geological pr ...

* El Laco * El Romeral mine *

El Tofo El Tofo is an iron ore mine in the Chilean Norte Chico region. The mine lies in northern Coquimbo Region within a larger mining district known as the Chilean Iron Belt. Geologically El Tofo is an iron oxide-apatite deposit. The first record of ...

Peru

Marcona mine Marcona may refer to: * Marcona District, Nazca Province, Peru ** San Juan de Marcona, capital of Marcona District ** Marcona Mine, an open-pit iron mine in Marcona District * Marcona, an almond The almond (''Prunus amygdalus'', syn. ''Prun ...

* Pampa de Pongo

Oceania

Australia

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Cairn Hill mine Cairn Hill mine is an iron ore mine formerly operated by IMX Resources and now by Cu-River Mining. It is located 55 km south-east of Coober Pedy in South Australia and produced 1.8Mtpa of a unique coarse-grained magnetite-copper DSO (Direct ...

* Iron Baron, South Australia *

Iron Knob Iron Knob is a town in the Australian state of South Australia on the Eyre Peninsula immediately south of the Eyre Highway. At the 2006 census, Iron Knob and the surrounding area had a population of 199. The town obtained its name from its pro ...

Africa

Algeria

* Gâra Djebilet mine * Ouenza mine

Angola

* Cassinga mine

Cameroon

* Mbalam mine * Nkout mine

eSwatini

* Pigg's Peak mine

Guinea

* Kalia mine * Mount Nimba mine * Simandou mine

Liberia

* Bong mine * Putu mine

Libya

* Shati Valley mine

Madagascar

*Bekisopa mine *

Betioky mine The Betioky mine is a large iron mine located in Betioky Sud in southern Madagascar, region of Atsimo-Andrefana. Betioky represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Rep ...

* Fenoarivo mine * Fenoarivo mine

Mauritania

Askaf Askaf is an iron ore prospect in Mauritania. Railway The deposit straddles the SNIM railway 598 km from its port of export. In 2014, Glencore Xstrata paid $1 billion to SNIM for access to that company's rail and port infrastructure, how ...

* Kaouat mine * Lebtheinia mine

Namibia

*Ongaba mine

Nigeria

* Agbaja mine * Itakpe mine

The Republic of the Congo

* Zanaga mine

Senegal

* Falémé mine

Sierra Leone

* Marampa mine * Tonkolili mine

South Africa

* Beeshoek mine * Khumani mine * Sishen mine

Tanzania

Liganga mine The Liganga mine is a large proposed iron mine located in Southern highland of Tanzania in the Ludewa District of Njombe Region. Road construction has begun in 2014. Ongaba represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Tanzania T ...

Zimbabwe

* Mwanesi mine

Europe

Austria

Erzberg mine The Erzberg mine is a large open-pit mine located in Eisenerz, Styria, in the central-western part of Austria, 60 km north-west of Graz and 260 km south-west of the capital, Vienna. Erzberg represents the largest iron ore reserves in Aus ...

Belarus

* Okulovsky mine

Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Ljubija mine

Finland

* Kolari mine * Vuorokas mine

Germany

Hansa Pit The Hansa Pit (german: Grube Hansa) was a mine on the territory of Harlingerode in the county of Wolfenbüttel in the Free State of Brunswick and later in Lower Saxony, West Germany. It was founded on the Langenberg south of Harlingerode; however ...

* Huth Pit * Konrad mine * Roter Bär Pit

Greenland

* Isua Iron Mine *

Maamorilik Maamorilik (old spelling: ''Mârmorilik'' or ''Maarmorilik'', also ''Black Angel Mine'') is a mining site in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Holding resources of zinc, iron, lead, and silver, the mine is long, with its entr ...

Norway

* Bjørnevatn mine

Portugal

Mua mine The Mua mine is a large iron mine located in central Portugal in the Bragança District. Mua represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), i ...

Romania

* Cacova Ierii mine * Dognecea mine * Gârliște mine * Ghelari mine * Lueta mine * Muncelu Mic mine * Ocna de Fier mine * Rudăria-Bănia mine * Băișoara mine * Teliuc mine

Sweden

Dannemora mine The Dannemora mine (''Dannemora gruvor'') at Dannemora in Uppsala County, Sweden was once one of the most important iron ore mines in Sweden. The mine was closed by its owners SSAB in 1992. It may have been open since the 13th century, but th ...

Herräng Herräng () is the northernmost locality in Norrtälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 422 inhabitants in 2010. It is located 40 kilometres north of the municipal seat Norrtälje along the coast of Singöfjärden, a bay on Roslagen. ...

* Kallak mine * Kaunisvaara mine * Kiruna mine *

Malmberget mine The Malmberget mine (Swedish: ''Malmbergsgruvan'') is one of the largest iron ore mines in Sweden. The mine is located in Malmberget in Norrbotten County, Lapland. The mine which is owned by Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB) has an annual ...

* Mertainen * Rällingsberg mining area * Ruoutevare mine

Ukraine

* Belanovskoye mine * Brovarkovskoye mine * Gorishne mine * Ingulets mine * Kharchenkovskoye mine * Manuilovskoye mine * Shymanivske mine * Vasilievskoye mine *

Yeristovskoye mine The Yeristovskoye mine is a large iron mine located in central Ukraine in the Poltava Oblast. Yeristovskoye represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Euro ...

* Zarudenskoye mine

United Kingdom

Clearwell Caves Clearwell Caves, at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system which has been extensively mined for iron ore. It now operates primarily as a mining museum. The caves are part of a Natural England de ...

* Great Rock Mine * Grinkle Mine *

Grosmont, North Yorkshire Grosmont ( ; archaically spelt ''Growmond'') is a village and civil parish situated in Eskdale in the North York Moors National Park, within the boundaries of the Scarborough district of the county of North Yorkshire, England. Grosmont Prior ...

Hodbarrow RSPB reserve Hodbarrow RSPB Reserve is a nature reserve run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on the edge of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is on the Duddon Estuary near the town of Millom. History The nature reserve ...

Kelly Mine, Devon Kelly Mine is a disused metalliferous mine situated on the eastern flank of Dartmoor near the village of Lustleigh in Devon, England. It was intermittently operational from the 1790s until 1951. It is one of some ten mines and two or three tr ...

* Kilton Thorpe *

Lingdale Lingdale is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The village was created with the advent of ironstone mining in the area, in the early 19th century. History Lingda ...

* North Skelton Mine * Penrhyn Dû Mines * Roseberry Mine * Rosedale Chimney Bank * Sharkham Point Iron Mine * Warren Moor Mine

Asia

Armenia

* Abovyan mine * Hrazdan mine * Svarants mine

China

* Baizhiyan mine * Baoguosi mine * Benxi mine * Gongchangling mine * Jinling mine * Ma On Shan Iron Mine * Pangjiapu mine * Sanheming mine * Shuichang mine * Sijiaying mine * Tadong mine *

Wuenduermiao mine The Wuenduermiao mine is a large iron Iron () is a chemical element with Symbol (chemistry), symbol Fe (from la, Wikt:ferrum, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 element, group 8 ...

* Yuanjiachun mine * Zhalanzhangzhi mine

Iran

* Gol Gohar mine

Japan

Matsuo mine , was an iron and sulphur mine located in the village of Matsuo, Iwate Prefecture in the Tohoku region of northern Japan. The area is now part of the city of Hachimantai. The mine opened in 1914 and closed in 1979 leaving a ghost town behind. ...

Mongolia

* Tamir gol mine

North Korea

* Holdong mine * Musan mine * Oryong mine

Russia

* Abakanskoye mine *

Aldan mine The Aldan mine is a large iron mine located in eastern Russia in the Sakha Republic. Aldan represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eas ...

* Bakal mine * Bakcharskoye mine * Belokitatskoye mine * Berezov mine * Berezovskoye mine * Chara mine * Dyosovskoye mine * Enashiminskoye mine * Gar mine * Gornaya Shoriya mine * Gusevogoroskoye mine * Gusevogorskoye mine * Inskoye mine * Itmatinskoye mine * Karasugskoye mine * Karelsky Okatysh mine * Kavakta mine * Kharlovskoye mine * Kholzunskoye mine * Korpanga mine *

Kostomuksha mine The Kostomuksha mine is a large iron mine located in north-western Russia in the Republic of Karelia. Kostomuksha represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental ...

* Kuznetsky Alatau mine * Lebedinskiy mine * Mikhaylovskiy mine * Milkanskoye mine * Nizhne-Angarskoye mine * Olekma mine * Olimpiyskoye mine * Prioskolsky mine * Sheregesh mine * Sobstvenno-Kachkanarskoye mine *

Sukha Balka mine The Sukha Balka mine is a large iron mine located in western Russia in the Sverdlovsk Oblast. Evrazruda represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Russia and in the world having estimated reserves of 585.2 million tonnes of ore grading 58% ...

* Tarynnakh mine * Teiskoye mine * Timir mine * Toyozhnoye mine * Turukhanskoye mine * Tyya mine * Yakovlevsky mine * Yuzhno Khingan mine

Saudi Arabia

* Wadi Sawawin mine

Turkey

* Attepe mine * Avnik mine * Divriği A-Kafa mine * Divriği B-Kafa mine * Hasançelebi mine * Kesikköprü mine

Vietnam

* Quý Xa iron mine * Thạch Khê iron mine