The invention discloses a method for carrying out direct reduction, sorting, agglomeration,
smelting and ironmaking on ore and
coal. Firstly, certain amount of the ore, the
coal and a
solvent are mixed, are placed in a rotary
hearth furnace and are heated to the temperature of between 1,100 and 1,350 DEG C, are kept at the temperature for 15 to 40 minutes and are directly reduced to obtain a reduced iron material with
metallizing rate of between 80 and 92 percent; the reduced iron material at high temperature of between 800 and 1,100 DEG C is directly transported into water, is cooled and is subjected to fine
grinding and sorting; and the iron material after the fine
grinding and sorting is subjected to
drying and agglomeration by high-temperature
oxygen-lost
exhaust gas and finally is transported into a submerged arc furnace or other
smelting equipment for carrying out
slag-iron separation and molten
iron production. The method has a simple process, short flow and high efficiency, needs no
coke and is suitable for low-grade ore and non-
blast furnace ore which is difficult to be used by the prior blast furnaces, such as oolitic
hematite,
ultrafine particle hematite,
limonite,
siderite and the like.