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The raw material used in the iron and steel industry are iron ore, manganese, flux, limestone, fuel (coking coal), and fire-clay. It consumes heavy quantity of coal and iron-ore. Both these minerals are weight-losing. Consequently, it is located either at the site of coal mines or near the iron-ore deposits. All these raw materials including water, bauxite, dolomite, etc. and coal are found in the Chotanagpur Plateau. The state of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal are rich in the raw material required for the smelting of iron-ore.