Iron ores with phosphorus content lower than 0.07% P are commercially desired as they are suitable for use in iron production. As a consequence, a lot of research efforts have been focused on phosphorus removal from high-phosphorus iron ore [20, 24, 32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48] in a bid to reduce the P content …