Handling & processing of iron & steel slag to be outsourced

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NMDC Ltd will outsource handling and processing of Iron and Steel slag as well as recovery of scrap for an initial period of five years at its upcoming 3 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant at Nagarnar near Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, officials informed.

The company will also be utilising de-silted slimes from the Tailing dams as raw material for making iron ore concentrates in its upcoming 4 MTPA Iron Ore Processing Plant (Slime Beneficiation) at Bacheli in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, they informed.

A Tailing dam is used to store by products from mining operations.

The concentrates produced at the Iron Ore Processing Plant (Slime Beneficiation) at Bacheli will be transported through a slurry pipeline to Pellet Plant which is also under construction at the company’s upcoming 3 MTPA Iron and Steel Plant at Nagarnar.

NMDC already is in the process of implementing an ambitious project of laying Slurry Pipeline from Bailadila to Jagdalpur and further upto Visakhapatnam, officials informed.

The capacity of the pipeline is 15 MTPA and this will be associated with facilities like Beneficiation Plant at Kirandul and Bacheli, Pellet Plant at Nagarnar and Vizag.

The Slurry Pipeline between Bacheli to Nagarnar is being executed by NMDC and from Nagarnar to Vizag is envisaged to be executed in SPV mode. The works for Bailadila to Jagdalpur segment (140 Km) has been taken up. This project is challenging in terms of obtaining various clearances and permissions from statutory bodies and complexity of the route, officials infomed.

The company is executing the project in two phases. The first phase is being executed from Bacheli to Nagarnar in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh at an estimated outlay of Rs 4,000 crore; and the second phase will be executed from Nagarnar to Vizag in Andhra Pradesh at an outlay of Rs 6,000 crore, officials informed.

Notably, to transport pellet feed concentrate from Bailadila to Vizag via Jagdalpur, the company will have the pipeline laid along the highways with a provision of partial off-take to feed its proposed 3 MTPA Steel plant coming up at Nagarnar.