NMDC ltd, India’s largest iron ore producer and exporter in public sector, on Sunday commissioned its new iron ore mine in Chhattisgarh’s extreme insurgency-hit Dantewada district. The mine-Bailadila Iron Ore Deposit 11B, is located in Bailadila hills where the NMDC has already several massive high-quality iron ore mines spread out in Bacheli and Kirandul areas. The NMDC has developed the mine having iron ore production capacity of 7 Million Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA) with an investment of more than Rs600 crores.
With the commissioning of 11B Project Mine, NMDC has ramped up production capacity from present level of 25 MTPA to 32 MTPA from Chhattisgarh’s Bailadila Sector. NMDC’s Chairman-cum-Managing Director Narendra Kothari formally inaugurated the 11B Project in presence of Narendra K Nanda, Director (Technical), Rabindra Singh, Director (Personnel), TRK Rao, Director (Commercial), PK Satpathy, Director (Production, DS Ahluwalia, Director (Finance) and other senior officials of NMDC besides senior executives of technological partners.
Kothari after commissioning the mine stated “this is one of the milestones in fulfilling NMDC’s dream to produce more than 100 million tonnes of iron ore and help in achieving the nation’s target of producing 300 million tonnes of steel”. The unique features of 11B Project is its 3.5 km long single flight regenerative downhill belt conveying system with horizontal and vertical curves. The 11B project features 3000 TPH Capacity Gyratory crusher and 1400 TPH Capacity Cone Crusher.