“…The research on the properties of raw materials, especially the characteristics of iron ores is fundamental and important. In addition to the traditional room temperature characteristics of iron ores, generally including physical structure (Ono et al, 2009;Formoso et al, 2003;Ellis et al, 2007), chemical composition (Hsieh, 2005;Wu et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2014), and basic sintering characteristics (BSCs) of iron ores proposed by Wu et al (2002a) get more and more attention of the researchers. BSCs including 4 kinds of high temperature characteristics of iron ores, such as assimilation characteristic, liquid phase fluidity characteristic, self-strength of bonding phase, and crystal intensity characteristic, could reflect the behavior and exhibit some physical and chemical characteristic of iron ores in the sintering process.…”