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Iron ores, means rocks or deposits containing iron-rich compounds in workable amounts; they may be primary or secondary; they may occur as irregular masses, as lodes or veins, or inter-bedded with sedimentary strata. (Chamber's Science and Technology Dictionary), National Mineral Development Corpn. Ltd. v. State of M.P., (2004) 6 SCC 281