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Coking coal and iron ore from the US will be unloaded at Immingham docks and transported to the Scunthorpe site after a scramble for supplies.

For its part, the US continues to be happy to buy Guyana's key exports of crude oil, gold and bauxite, which is the ore from which aluminium is extracted.

The government said work was under way on Monday to obtain the coking coal and iron ore that power the plant's two furnaces - materials it previously said owners Jingye had been selling off.

Tom adds: "Iron ore is the bedrock of this town. Every single person in this town has some connection to it."

Coking coal is a source of fuel in the blast furnace process used to make virgin steel, which is made from iron ore rather than recycled steel.