{"id":1196244,"date":"2020-07-16T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1029859"},"modified":"2020-07-16T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:12:58","slug":"vale-launches-pilot-plant-for-dry-magnetic-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1196244","title":{"rendered":"Vale launches pilot plant for dry magnetic separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vale (NYSE: VALE) has launched in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a pilot plant with magnetic concentration of low-grade iron ore, without using water. <\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian technology, known as FDMS (Fines Dry Magnetic Separation), is unique in the world and was developed by New Steel, a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vale.com\/EN\/investors\/information-market\/Press-Releases\/Pages\/Vale-signs-agreement-to-purchase-New-Steel.aspx\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> company purchased by Vale in late 2018. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pilot plant, which cost $3 million, is the first step towards the construction of an industrial plant, which will have a production capacity of 1.5 million tons per year, according to Vale.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vale estimates that, in 2024, 70% of production will benefit from dry or natural humidity<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The miner plans to invest $100 million in the project and the start-up of the commercial plant is scheduled for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Vale estimates that, in 2024, 1% of its production will be done through the use of technology, which already has a recognized patent in 59 countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NS-03 is a semi-industrial plant that aims to carry out tests on a pilot scale with different ores, allowing the definition of operational parameters for commercial scale projects,&#8221; said president of New Steel, Ivan Montenegro.<\/p>\n<p>Installed at Vale&#8217;s Ferrous Technology Center in Nova Lima, the pilot plant is the second to start operating. Between 2015 and 2017, a unit operated at the F\u00e1brica mine in Minas Gerais. <\/p>\n<p>The new test plant will be able to concentrate 30 tonnes per hour of dry ore, using magnetic separation technology, using rare earth magnets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Steel puts Vale at the forefront of investments in ore processing technology. We will continue to look for solutions that increase the security of our operations,&#8221; says Vale&#8217;s executive director of Ferrous Metal, Marcello Spinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Vale estimates that, in 2024, 70% of production will benefit from dry or natural humidity, without adding water in the beneficiation process and without using tailings dams. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot plant will have the capacity to concentrate 30 tonnes per hour of dry ore, using magnetic separation technology, made by means of rare earth magnets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,2857,2640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","category-news","category-suppliers-equipment","category-top-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196245,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196244\/revisions\/1196245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}