51.   The chief executives of minerals and iron ore quit last month as costs ballooned in building a hot briquetted iron plant.

52.   The Corex technique, developed in Europe, uses coal to treat the iron ore, while drawing off the byproduct gases to fuel an electrical generator.

53.   The CVG and its iron ore subsidiary, Ferrominera Orinoco SA, will supply the plant with iron ore and other raw materials.

54.   The company also has interests in steel, power, coal, iron ore and petroleum.

55.   The complex took raw iron ore, timber, rubber and other raw materials and turned them into cars.

56.   The go-ahead for building and deciding the size of a steel plant depends on the quality and quantity of iron ore.

57.   The iron ore came into one side of his giant River Rouge plant, and automobiles came out the other.

58.   The growth of mini-mills, which cost less to operate than large mills that process iron ore to make steel, is driving demand for scrap metal.

59.   The protest halted the unloading of coal and iron ore, forcing Cosipa to use a lower quality raw materials to produce steel, said company spokesman Gilson Bentes.

60.   The problems, they contend, are with the big integrated producers that begin with iron ore, smelt it to make steel and then produce finished products.