PDF Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022 Iron Ore USGS Publications Warehouse
Domestic iron ore production was estimated to be 46 million tons in 2021, a 21% increase from million tons in 2020. Total raw steel production was estimated to have increased to 87 million tons in 2021 from million tons in 2020. The share of steel produced by basic oxygen furnaces, the process that uses iron ore, continued to decline