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Pittsburgh
It is an important steel city of the United States of America.
The steel industry at Pittsburgh enjoys locational advantages:-
Raw material such as coal is available locally
Iron ore from the iron mines at Minnesota about 1500 km from Pittsburgh.
Between these mines and Pittsburgh is one of the world’s best routes for shipping ore
cheaply – the famous Great Lakes waterway.
The Ohio, the Monogahela and Allegheny rivers provide adequate water supply.
Finished steel is transported to the market by both land and water routes.
The Pittsburgh area has many factories other than steel mills.
These use steel as their raw material to make many different products such as railroad
equipment, heavy machinery and rails.
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