NMDC ltd — the country’s largest iron ore producer and exporter in the public sector has commenced work on construction of a Railway siding at the site of its upcoming 3 MTPA steel plant at Nagarnar in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh.
Notably, the company is also setting up a Rapid Wagon loading mechanism with a feeding conveyor system at Mallinger valley siding of the East Coast Railway in Kirandul Complex of Bastar division, official stated.
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of NMDC ltd, Narendra Kothari had recently stated that hot trials of the company's steel plant coming up at Nagarnar in Dantewada district of Bastar in Chhattisgarh would commence by December 2016.
The company is presently producing about 30 million tonnes of iron ore from 3 fully mechanized mines viz., Bailadila Deposit-14/11C, Bailadila Deposit-5, 10/11A (Chhattisgarh State) and Donimalai Iron Ore Mines (Karnataka State).
Moreover, NMDC recorded iron ore production (provisional ) of 5.91 million tonnes (MT) from its mines in Chhattisgarh as on August 31, 2015.
The company informed this to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in its filing recently while offering details on production and sales of iron ore (provisional) upto the month of August this year from its mines in Chhattisgarh and Karnataka.
NMDC from its mines in Karnataka recorded iron ore production of 4.61 million tonnes during the aforesaid period. The total iron ore production from the company's mines in Chhattisgarh and Karnataka during the aforesaid period stood at 10.52 million tonnes, it informed the BSE.