Brazilian pellets producer Samarco, a 50/50 joint venture between Vale and BHP Billiton, plans to produce between 7 to 8 million mt of iron ore pellets per year.
The company’s output forecast came as the company resumed activities at both its Germano and Ubu complexes.
At the Ubu facility, Samarco is only operating its No. 4 pelletizing facility.
Samarco said the output forecast accounts for 26 percent its total capacity.
The company also said it’s using a dry filtering system, which allows the company to stock about 80 percent of its waste in a dry pit, differently from the upstream dam it had in Mariana, which burst, killing 19 people in November 2015.