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New Steel’s dry beneficiation plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil

breakthrough flowsheet inverts the large volumes of waste produced at mining
traditional wet beneficiation method by operations are expensive to manage and New Steel Global NV
introducing a drying station before magnetic are frequently cited as an obstacle to the Headquartered in the Netherlands
separation. By doing this, the moisture environmental sustainability of mining. and with business operations in Brazil,
contained in the ore is reduced to under 1% Today around 1 billion tons per year of New Steel is a processing company
and this new process allows the efficient waste rocks and tailings are left behind that is deploying its unique dry
separation of magnetic particles (iron) from after the ore has been processed to beneficiation technology around the
the non-magnetic particles (silica). globe. The company invests through
remove the valuable commodity.
In developing countries around 1.1 billion However, the difference in mineral its subsidiary companies in scientific
people have inadequate access to clean content between ore and waste can and technological development of
water. At the same time, some world change depending on market conditions sustainable products for the mineral,
class iron ore deposits are located in arid and available technology, New Steel’s dry steel and waste sector.
areas and cannot be fully explored due to technology enables the recovery of low www.newsteelglobal.com
water scarcity. New technologies like New grade marginal ores, nowadays considered
Steel’s enable the unlocking of the value waste, in an economically viable manner
of constrained assets, providing goods due to its high efficiency, thereby
and services necessary for human and producing a high-grade iron ore and a
environmental well-being.
clean by-product that can be used in civil
Turning mine waste into resource construction.
Like the majority of human activities, A green future for mining, that is 100%
mining operations produce waste sustainable, can be a reality and could be
materials. “Waste” is a general term for implemented in the near future around
material which currently has little or no the globe, allowing sustainable growth
economic value.
in remote areas. There is always time for
The type, amount and properties of mine change if our goal is leaving a legacy for
waste produced at different mines vary future generations.
depending on the resource being mined
and the process technology used. The

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