Beneficiation and Processing of some Important Raw Materials, for Iron and Steel Production

Abstract

India is committed to a policy of industrialisation and, along with others, the mineral industries are also expanding. The iron and still industry in the country can be considered to be fairly well est- ablished and with the expansion of the existing plants and the erection of three new plants, the steel ingot production is expected to go up to six million tons by the end of the Second plan period. Four ferro-manganese plants in the country viz. i) The Tata Iron and Steel Company's plant at joda ii) Jeypore Mining Syndicate's at Raygada (Orissa}, iii) Ferro Alloys Corporation at Garividi (Andhra) and (iv)Electro Metallurgical works Private Ltd., at Dandeli (Bombay) have gone into production and five more plants are expected to be established shortly to increase the production to 1,60,000 tons, of which 1 lakh will be for export and the remainder for internal consumption.