How is iron ore turned into iron?

Non-professional opinion (Due to no answer thus of yet): The two components (The Iron, and the other junk) melt at different points.

You have to smelt it to get the iron out. Other wise, you can't get iron form iron ore.

you can smelt it. You put it in a blast furnace with carbon. This will be able to separate the iron from the iron ore

Iron ores consists mostly of oxygen and iron atoms bonded together into molecules. To convert these oxides or iron to metallic iron, they must be smelted or sent through a direct reduction process to...

Iron ore is any rock that contains a usable quantity of iron. Common iron ore minerals include hematite, magnetite, limonite, and siderite. These are frequently found together with assorted...