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A process of ore pelletisation is provided which comprises adding binder polymer to particulate ore and moisture and thereby forming an intimate mixture of ore, binder polymer and moisture, forming green pellets from the mixture and firing the pellets, and in the process a water- soluble treatment polymer is included in the intimate mixture in an amount of at least 0.01 % and has a molecular weight 1,000 to 20,000 and is a synthetic polymer formed by polymerisation of water- soluble ethylenically unsaturated anionic monomer or water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer blend containing at least 50 wt. % anionic monomer.