Kumba's Sishen iron ore mine sets record output
South
Africa's Kumba Resources' Sishen
iron ore mine achieved record coal
production and sales volumes. Higher demand for
coking coal and improved operating efficiencies increased other domestic sales by 4%.
At Ticor SA in Richards Bay, two furnaces continued to increase
production according to the planned schedule, resulting in higher
production rates and the first sales of slag and low manganese
pig iron.
A feasibility study into the Sishen Expansion Project which would increase
iron ore output by 10 million tons annually in addition to the one million tons per annum expansion currently in progress, is expected to be completed by the end of 2004.
As previously reported by SteelOrbis, in July 2004 Kumba Resources concluded an agreement with the government of
Senegal and its agency Miferso to begin an exploration program to establish a resource base in
Senegal's Faleme
iron ore deposits in the southeast of the country.