Ural is situated between Europe and Asia. It occupies a favourable geographical position. The majestic Ural Mountains stretch all the way from north to south of the country. They are ancient, strongly destroyed mountains of no great height.
The eastern slopes of the Urals is
famous for the mountain Magnitnaya(the place near Magnitogorsk).It is so called a group of mountains Berezovaya,Uzyanka Jezhovka,Atach,Dalnaya. They occupied the area of 25 square kilometres on the left bank of the Ural river.There was a great concentration of iron in the past. It was believed that the iron content of the ores was to 70%.The total reserves of iron- ore were estimated to 500 million tons.The chief deposits of iron ore were concentrated on the surface. It was very easy to extract iron ore.