Company: MT
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001243429-25-000017
Chunk: 154

Company: ArcelorMittal
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 20-F
Chunk 154
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 The enriched sequence is a traditional Banded Iron Formation that has been subject to significant weathering that has enriched the iron ore deposits. Ore is generally of the friable hematite type, however more competent hematite ores and friable goethite ores are also present. The current mining operation at Thakurani is being carried out by conventional mining methods using excavators and trucks for ore transportation to a mobile crushing facility. Ore from the Thakurani operation is crushed and screened on site before being transported by road to the Dabuna beneficiation plant located approximately 40 kilometers to the south. Beneficiated material is then transported by slurry pipeline to the pelletizing plant at Paradip, located on the coast of Bay of Bengal. Ghoraburhani – Sagasahi mine The Ghoraburhani – Sagasahi mine is a production stage open pit iron ore mine, located in the Sundargarh district of Odisha, state of India. The operation and mining rights to the Ghoraburhani – Sagasahi operations were obtained through the AMNS India takeover of Essar Steel India Limited (ESIL) in December 2019. The mining lease deed was granted in 2021, for a period of 50 years and permits production of up to 7.16 million tonnes per annum of ore primarily for captive usage. AMNS India holds surface and mineral rights over 139 hectares at the Ghoraburhani – Sagasahi mine. The Ghoraburhani – Sagasahi operations lie in the south- western part of the Singhbhum-Keonjhar-Bonai iron ore belt. The enriched sequence is a traditional Banded Iron Formation that has been subject to significant weathering and deformation that has enriched the iron ore deposits. Ore is generally of lateritic iron ore/hard laminated ore on the top followed by soft laminated ore and friable hematite with intercalations of friable shaly ore and limonitic ore are also present. Ore mining commenced at the Ghoraburhani – Sagasahi mine in 2021 by conventional mining methods, using excavators and trucks for ore transportation to a mobile screening & crushing facility, where ore is crushed and screened on site before being transported by road to the Dabuna beneficiation plant located approximately 28 kilometers to the south-east. Beneficiated material is then transported by 253 kilometers slurry pipeline to the pelletizing plant at Paradip.

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