Not enough Iron deposits

[Jbob]

I've hit a road block on my first city. The tutorial is telling me to upgrade my iron mine into a bigger one, and that requires 17 warehouses around it and a steelworks. All of these things require a lot of iron. I have iron mines on the only two iron deposits on the map, and I literally don't produce enough iron to make more warehouses to upgrade the iron mine to produce more iron. It's like a massive contradiction. They seem to be asking me to produce enough iron to be able to produce more iron, and that's not possible. Am I missing something?

[Slothy]

A work around for iron shortage is this: You can build up to 3 iron mines as far as I can tell around any given iron deposit. Just have them overlap the iron in range, but not be within the number of squares that causes a problem. That should help you a bit.

[Slothy]

Also, when choosing a map to play, one of the only criteria I have used recently is how many iron deposits have spawned.. only because it appears to be the only rare in-game resource.

[evilcherry]

You need miner's residence not warehouses AFAIK. And these residences produces iron, too.

[-VG- Napster]

Originally posted by Jbob:

I've hit a road block on my first city. The tutorial is telling me to upgrade my iron mine into a bigger one, and that requires 17 warehouses around it and a steelworks. All of these things require a lot of iron. I have iron mines on the only two iron deposits on the map, and I literally don't produce enough iron to make more warehouses to upgrade the iron mine to produce more iron. It's like a massive contradiction. They seem to be asking me to produce enough iron to be able to produce more iron, and that's not possible. Am I missing something?

just checked this for you

the iron mine needs 6 warehouse to upgrae to a big one.
when you click on the iron mine you see a yellowish area highlighted
when you place houses in that area(they become miner houses) you generate more iron
+1 iron per houseing build
you can upgrade these miner houses so they give you +3 when they have a food source close by

additional info
steelworks need 8 warehouses so you can build them
upgraded steelworks need 12 warehouses in total to be upgraded to heavy steelworks.

[ahueonao]

Yeah, it's all about miner's residences to boost your iron (and coal) production. Keep in mind that miner houses will form within a range of 5 tiles from the mine, but need to be right next to a road, so you'll need to play around with some snakey streets to maximize the housing. Once you hit 9k population, you can make the houses denser (which produces more a bit more iron or coal) by adding a food service. Since miner houses aren't affected by pollution, you can take advantage of them to man the polluting buildings that require nearby residences, like steel mills and goods factories.