Except authors earlier work on quality of pellets from Indian iron ore (Dwarapudi et al., 2008, Dwarapudi et al., 2010, Dwarapudi and Ranjan, 2010), there is no considerable literature reported on the effect of pellet basicity and MgO content in the basicity range of 0 to 0.8 for Indian hematite ore. In the present study, pellets with …