IRON ORE Kudremukh 1Mine 7502

							IRON ORE
Kudremukh Mine-Development at 20 mtpy
Capacity
    CLIENT
    Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL)
    LOCATION
    Kudremukh, India
    YEAR
    1976-1980
    SCOPE
    •     Overall engineering
    •     Construction & project management
    •     Off shore procurement services
    •     North America employees training


                                                                     handling facilities. Procurement and supply of a
SERVICES RENDERED                                                    30 tph bentonite and limestone grinding plant at the
                                                                     3.0 mtpy Mangalore pellet plant.
Overall   engineering,   construction    and    project
management, cost control, start-up assistance, training          PROJECT DESCRIPTION
of owner's employees in North America mines and
plants and operations management.                                The iron ore deposits in the Kudremukh Range have
                                                                 been known since their discovery in 1913. Plans to
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS                                        develop the low grade iron ore deposits of Kudremukh
                                                                 were initiated in 1966 by the National Mineral
The Kudremukh deposit is a complex ore body both                 Development Corporation.
geologically and mineralogically. The iron is present in a
combination of hematite and magnetite minerals,                  The development of the Kudremukh deposit became an
therefore requiring a careful blending of the ore as the         international venture when the Steel Authority of India
concentrator uses a combination of magnetic and                  Ltd. (SAIL) and the Iranian Steel Industries Co. (NISIC)
gravity methods.                                                 signed in 1975 an agreement under which Iran
                                                                 extended to India financing for the development of the
The services provided by Met-Chem include mine                   project for the export to Iran 150 million tons of iron ore
design and development, which included two (2)                   concentrate over a 20 year period beginning in 1980.
gyratory crushers, 6,000 tph downhill conveying system
and mining equipment.                                            KIOCL reached an agreement with Met-Chem Canada
                                                                 Inc. in 1976 as mining associate and engineer /
•   Flowsheet and concentrator design to produce
                                                                 constructor for the development of the project.
    7.5 mtpy of iron ore concentrate from a crude ore
    averaging 38.6% Fe, 0.33 mag. Fe/total Fe ratio.             The project objectives were the development of a
•   Equipment selection for autogenous grinding mills,           20-mtpy iron ore mine and beneficiation facilities to
    magnetic separators, ball mills, hydrocyclones,              produce 7.5 mtpy of high-grade iron ore concentrate.
    gravity spiral circuits, thickeners and 6,000 tonne
    capacity slurry storage tanks.
•   Environmental study and detailed design of air
    emissions and solid waste including an earth filled
    Lakhya tailings dam approximately 620 m length,
    65 m height, 562 m width with a storage capacity of
    91x106 cubic meters.
•   Construction of a 67 km long slurry pipeline from the
    mine to the port, design of the filter plant,
    concentrate storage shed and complete port
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