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Iron, is the most useful of the metallic elements and the second most abundant in the earth's crust, after aluminium. In its elemental form or as steel, iron has supplied civilization with most of its tools and machinery, many of its products, and the bulk of its structural elements in large-scale construction. (Encyclopaedia Britannica), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of M.P., (2004) 6 SCC 281.