NMDC, India's largest iron ore producer is establishing a 0.36-million-tonnes (mt) a year mini-beneficiation plant worth Rs 150 crore to process low-grade iron ores. It has completed laboratory and pilot tests to beneficiate two specific low iron content ores BHJ and BHQ available in its Donimalai mines in Karnataka.
The company based on the optimum process flow sheet developed at its R&D centre, is setting up the plant, one of the first plants of its kind in the country. After Donimalai, it also proposes to set up similar facility at Bailadila in Chhattisgarh.
NMDC is a state-controlled mineral producer of the Government of India. It is fully owned by the Government of India and is under administrative control of the Ministry of Steel.
