Tata Steel to spend Rs 1,100 crore on iron ore mines expansion

01 Sep 2009 Evaluate

Tata Steel has embarked upon a Rs 1,100-crore programme to augment capacity of its iron ore mines at Joda (Orissa) and Noamundi (Jharkhand). The increased production will go to meet the larger ore requirement of the company’s Jamshedpur plant.

 

An estimated Rs 600-crore is being spent on capacity expansion of the Joda mines discovered 100 years ago and the balance Rs 500 crore on Noamundi mines. On completion of the work, expected in two years, the production of Joda mines will double to eight million tonnes (mt) annually and it will increase to more than nine mt from the present seven mt annually at Noamundi.

 

Now, the Jamshedpur plant requires 10-11 mt of ore annually to meet the current level of production of about seven mt of crude steel and the requirement is met almost entirely by Joda and Noamundi mines. The requirement, it is estimated, will rise to 16-17 mt when the plant will be ready for production of 10 mt crude steel annually from 2011.

 

This is not for the first time the Joda and Noamundi mines are undergoing modernisation or expansion. Through several modernisation programmes in the past, the production of Joda mines was stepped up from the original 0.8 mt to 2.1 mtpa first and then to three mtpa and finally to four mtpa.crackcrack

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