Umetal & Custeel MD Visits Chadormalu Mine in Iran
UMETAL-CHINA, Mr. Yang Yongliang, managing director with Umetal & Custeel, together with other two colleagues, visited one of the largest iron ore mines in Middle East - Chadormalu Mining and Industrial Co. (CMIC), accompanied by several Iranian friends. In contrast with the desolated and bleak scene in the desert along the road, the mining area is much more vigorous with floral design of trees, bushes and flowers. The more impressed is living facilities around the mining area, including cinemas, multipurpose gymnasium, basketball museums, horse-riding padlock, café shop, swimming pool, etc., which far dwarfs the world’s four largest mines.
The Umetal people visited the main ore body, the crushing mill, the beneficiation mill, the tailings pond and the office area, guided by Mr. O.A. Rahmani, production manager with Chadormalu. Chadormalu, with a production capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum, consists of two open-pit ore bodies in the northern and southern zones respectively. After blending the hematite ore with the magnetite ore, the 67%-Fe iron ore concentrate will be finally generated.
Noticeably, 50 million tonnes of 28-33%-Fe tailings are piled at stocks, and Chadormalu hopes to find an investment partner from China and jointly processing those tailings by using China’s high-end magnetic separation technology.
After the visit, Umetal learned that the Chadormalu has standard and orderly production and management, and strong cultural ambience. The employers regard their company as their family and are quite enthusiastic, which deserves to be learned from by the Chinese mines.
Chadormalu is located at center of Persia (Iran) Desert, at the North of gray chahmohammad mountains, at the South of Saghand salt marsh, at 180Km of the Northeast of Yazd and 300Km of the South of Tabas city.
Chadormalu deposit has some 400 million tonnes of resource and 320 million tons of minable reserves split between the northern and southern ore bodies with average Fe-and P-Content of 55.2% and 0.9% respectively.
Chadormalu Mining and Industrial Company is the main iron ore concentrate producer for iron making by direct reduction in Iran. Besides iron ore concentrate, the Company also produce up to 1,000,000 tonnes/year crushed iron ore for using in blast furnaces in Iran as well for export purpose. The Company was established in June 1992, as a Private Joint Stock Co. Later, on 21st April 2003 the legal status of the company changed to Public Joint Stock Co. and has been registered on Tehran stock exchange. The company’s iron ore concentrate is provided to local steelmakers and its iron ore lumps are exported to China. It is learnt that 500 million tonnes of 28%-33-Fe tailings ore have been piled up at the mining area, and in order to lift the usage rate of resources, Chadormalu is opening its door to Chinese technique and equipment and hopes to work on those tailings with Chinese partners.