M/S ARCHANA HI-TECH AUTOMATION SYSTEM PVT. LTD.

Executive Summary
Iron Ore, Beneficiation Plant, at - Industrial area Hargarh, Jabalpur (M.P.)

Executive Summary

OF

Iron Ore Beneficiation Plant /

Pelletization plant

Hargarh Industrial Area

Tehshil Sihora, Dist. Jabalpur
(Madhya Pradesh)

Proponent

M/s Archana Hi-Tech Automation Systems Pvt. Ltd.

C-12, Sukhasagar Valley, Gwarighat Road,
Jabalpur – 482008 (Madhya Pradesh)

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Iron Ore, Beneficiation Plant, at - Industrial area Hargarh, Jabalpur (M.P.)

Executive Summary

1.0 Introduction
M/s Archana HI-tech Automation System Pvt. Ltd. is the registered Private Limited Company
having its head Office at 5-234/2 H.P. Road, Moosapet, Hyderabad, and Branch Office C-12,
Sukhsagar Valley, Gwarighat Road, Jabalpur (M.P.). The company is engaged in various
industrial activities in country and now entering in field of Mineral Beneficiation. The Jabalpur
region is having very rich source of minerals like low grade Iron ore and Blue dust therefore
company is planning to setup a Iron ore Beneficiation fallowed by Pelletization Plant at
Notified Industrial area, Hargarh , Tehsil Sihora, District Jabalpur (M.P.).

The proposed capacity of the plant is 0.72 Million ton per Annum of beneficiation plant &
0.64 MTPA Pelletization. The land measuring 1.096 hectares (ha) is available for setting up of
the Plant; the land has been allotted by Madhya Pradesh Audhyokik Vikas Nigam (MPAKVN),
Jabalpur. The supply of Iron ore will be met from nearby mines. Substantial numbers of
medium size deposits of low grade iron ore are available around Jabalpur. This iron ore is
being mined, and most part of it is sold unprocessed by the mine owners. Considering the
ever increasing demand for good quality iron ore by steel and metallurgical industries as well
as conservation of mineral policy of the Government, we intend to exploit the process and
produce iron ore meeting the specifications of user industries. Further to encouragement
given by the Government of Madhya Pradesh for industrialization, it is proposed to set up a
processing plant in various modules in stages at Plot “B+C” Industrial area Hargarh, Tahsil,
Sihora, Jabalpur.
Very low grade Iron ore can not be used in metallurgical plants and needs to be upgraded to
increase the iron content and reduce gangue contents. A process adapt to up grade ore is
called Beneficiation. Iron Ore is up graded to higher iron content through concentration. Iron
ore is beneficiated to all around the world to meet the quality requirement of large steel
industries. Several technologies are available such as washing, jigging, magnetic separation;
advance gravity separation and floatation are being employed to enhance the quantity of the

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Iron Ore, Beneficiation Plant, at - Industrial area Hargarh, Jabalpur (M.P.)

Iron ore. Recent increase in demand for steel & increase in its costs has boosted up the
production of iron & steel. The demand for iron ore also has sharply increased. The good
quality iron ore is fast depleting thereby forcing the iron makers to use low grade iron ore
after beneficiation.

As per the EIA Notification issued from MoEF, New Delhi, dated 14.09.2006, this project falls
in category ‘A’, Project Activity 2 (a).

2.0 Project Details

S. No. Particulars Details
1 Name of the project Iron Ore Beneficiation and
Pelletization Plant
2 Location of the Project Area
i Village Notified Industrial Area Hargarh
ii Tehsil Sihora
iii District Jabalapur
iv State Madhya Pradesh
3 Area Specific Details
i Proposed project area 1.096 ha
Ii Proposed Green Belt 8300 sq m (1100 sq m from Plot no. B+C
and 7200sq m from AKVN, application
for permission has already been given)
iii Toposheet No. 64 A/3
iv Latitude 23° 29’ 09’’ North
v Longitude 80° 06’54’’ East
vi Plot No. Plot No. B+C
4 Requirements
i Total Fresh Water requirement 910 cum
ii Total Power requirement 300 KVA
iii Total Manpower requirement 60 Nos
iv Total cost of the project 26 Corers
v Environmental Protection Cost 50 Lakhs
5 Details of Project Area
i Nearest National Highway NH –7; 5.2 km
ii Nearest Railway Station Sihora; 8 km
iii Nearest Airport Jabalpur 60 km

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iv National Parks, Sanctuaries, No National Parks, Sanctuaries,

Biosphere Reserves, Wildlife
Corridors, Tiger/Elephant reserves
within 10 km radius
v Nearest major city
vi Nearest River
Biosphere Reserves, Wildlife
Corridors, Tiger/Elephant reserves
within 10 km radius
Bohra Reserved forest –(2.0 Km)
Dhanwahd RF – 6.5 km
Jabalpur
Hirren river (1.5 km in S direction)

3.0 Raw Material Requirements

S. No. Name Qty (MTPA) Source
1 Iron Ore 1.2 Nearby Mines
2 Bituminous Coal (Imported) 0.0072 Imported
3 Limestone 0.0072 Local Mining
4 Coke Breeze 0.0072 Local Mining
5 Bentonite 0.0043 – 0.0072 Kutch, Gujarat
6 Furnace Oil As and when needed From Local market

3.1 Water Requirement

Breakup of water Proposed Total No. of Annual

requirement and usage: requirement requirement operationa requirement
3 3 3
Activity (m /day) (m /day) l days in a (m /year)
year
Industrial activity 6000 6000 300 1800000
Residential/ domestic 3 3 365 1095
Greenbelt development/ 2 2 300 600
Environment maintenance
Other use 1 1 300 300
Grand total 6006 6006 300 1801995

4.0 Beneficiation Process:

1. Screening of raw ore through vibrating grizzely
2. +30mm size will be crushed by JAW CRUSHER
3. This material is again screened through D. D. Vibratory screen

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Iron Ore, Beneficiation Plant, at - Industrial area Hargarh, Jabalpur (M.P.)

4. -1mm will go to sump and +1mm will be fed to ball mill

5. Discharge of ball mill will go through H. SP. Screen
6. -1mm will go to sump and +1mm will be re-fed to ball mill.
7. From sump the material will be pumped to Hydro cyclone
8. Under flow from Hydro cyclone will be collected in sump and Pumped to cluster of
Cyclones
9. Under flow from cluster of cyclones will go to Primary spiral
10. From Primary Spiral concentrate will go to Secondary spiral and rejects will go to
tailing Pond
11. From secondary spiral – rejects will go to tailing pond, concentrate is finished product,
will go to stock yard and spiral middle will be re-fed to primary spiral.
12. Over flow of Hydro cyclone and cluster of cyclones will be collected in a sump and
Pumped to Desliming cyclone
13. Over flow will go to tailing pond and under flow will go to sump and pumped to
WHIMS.
14. The concentrate from WHIMS will go to stock yard as finished product and tail will go
to RCC bedded tailing pond.
15. Water from tailing pond will be taken in recovery tanks. There will be 3 recovery tanks
with RCC sloping bed, after settlement of solids water is removed for re-use and solids
will be scrapped out manually. The tanks will be used alternately while one is allowed
to dry other two will be in use. Scrapped solids will be sold for brick making.
4.1 Pelletization Process:
Grate Kiln technology is proposed for pelletization & the process is as below:
1. Additives (Limestone & Coke Breeze) grinding.
2. Coal Pulverization.
3. Proportioning & mixing of additives, binder & Iron Ore fines concentrate.
4. Green Balling & Screening.
5. Drying & Preheating in travel grate.

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6. Roasting/ Induration in pulverized coal fired rotary kiln.

7. Cooling & Heat recovery in circular cooler.
8. Exhaust gas cleaning through ESP for emission control.

Process Flow Chart

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Iron Ore, Beneficiation Plant, at - Industrial area Hargarh, Jabalpur (M.P.)

5.0 Baseline Environment Scenario:

5.1 Air Environment:
Ambient Air Quality monitoring has been done during October 2011 to December 2011 at six
monitoring stations for the parameters like SPM, PM10, SO2, NOx and the concentration of
parameters are found well below the prescribed limit. The concentration of SPM ranges 93 –
217 µg/m3 , PM10 ranges 20.3 – 44.3 µg/m3, SO2 ranges 6.8 – 18.5 µg/m3, NOx ranges 7.6 –
22.6 µg/m3.
The ambient air quality stations are as follows:

S. No. Location Direction Distance

A1. Project Site - -
A2. Hargarh Village SW 1.8 km
A3. Darauli Village E 2.4 km
A4. Bichhiya Village S 3.1 km
A5. Bhatadon Village W 3.8 km
A6. AmgawanVillage SW 4.2 km

5.2 Water Environment

Water samples are collected from six location analysis as per the IS 10500 and
observed that the parameters are well within the limits.

5.3 Noise Pollution

Noise levels have been measured in the neighborhood environment of the project site. Noise
coming from Trucks, cars, birds, animals etc. is expected to add to the main noise generated
by process operations of the Facility. Three Baseline noise level survey locations have been
selected. One at project site, one at Village Hargarh 1.6 Kms.
Ambient Noise Level
S. No. Location Direction Distance Existing Noise
Level (day time)
N1. Project Site - - 48 dB(A)
N2. Hargarh Village SW 1.8km 49 dB(A)

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N3. Darauli Village E 2.4 km 45 dB(A)

5.4 Biological Environment:

The biological environment mainly consists of flora and fauna and its relationship
with surroundings. Biological environment includes species of native plants and
animals and one may measures the degradation of environment by noting the
decrease in the commonly species.

Shrubs and bushes can be seen in the plant area. And there is no well known rare,
endangered species in this region. Hence there will be no considerable impact on the
biological environment. The massive afforestation planned for the plant site shall
generate a forest having.

5.5 Fauna

According to Survey of India, the study area does not host natural wild life. There are
also no zoos or bird sanctuaries in the study area. Rodents, monkeys, jackals and large
birds constitute the natural fauna in the study area. Peasants, pigeon, peacock can be
sighted occasionally along with the birds of common occurrence in the study area.
Even forestland has only sparse row of trees and is not able to sustain much natural
fauna. The fauna encountered are listed in table below.

List of Fauna in Study Area

Bengal Monkey (Macasus rhesus) Jungle cat (Felischaus)
Mongoose (Herpests mingo) Sambhar (Crevus unicolor)
Kalmuha monkey Common haw cuckoo (Cuculus
(Semnapthecus on lellccs) micropterces)

House sparrow (Passer domesticus) House crow (carvus splendens)

Common maina (Acrido tehras tristis)

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5.6 Water Bodies

Hiren River is flowing at a distance of 1.5 km towards the E direction from the
proposed plant, this river will be the source of water for Hargarh Industrial area.
Ground water is available both under confined and unconfined conditions. The
ground water table in the study area is found 15m BGL.

5.7 Soil Quality

The soil samples collected from 3 different stations and analyzed. The analysis report shows
that the pH value ranges from 6.43 to 6.91, water holding capacity ranges from 35.95 to
46.83% and Nitrogen contents are found 289 kg/ha to 318.9 kg/ha

5.8 Socio Economic Status

The population of the district Jabalpur as per census records 2001 is 21,51,203. Scheduled
Caste & Scheduled Tribe fraction of the population of the study area is 12.73% and 15.01%
respectively. Percentage of literacy is 75.69%.

6.0 Existing infrastructure facilities:

Education
Within the study area there are only seven primary schools. But at Sihora & Jabalpur
have education facility with Collages & Higher Secondary Schools.

Medical and Health

The project proponents shall provide facilities for medical check-up of its workers and
employees through a visiting Physician. They will also provide first-aid facilities at
plant time office.
Transport
The National Highway no. 7 is connecting MP & Uttar Pradesh is 5.2 km away from
site. All sorts of vehicles, viz. – Trucks, Mini-trucks, Buses, Jeeps, Cars etc. play day
and night over this highway and instant conveyance is available even upto Jabalpur.

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Jabalpur is the nearest airport while Sihora is the nearest railhead about 8.0 kms Away
from the site.
7.0 Green Belt Development
The company will developed green over an area 1100 sqm in the factory premises while 7200
sqm land of MPAKVN. The permission for this is obtained by the company. So the total green
cover shall be 8300 sqm. The whole area shall be covered by plantation within 3 years from
start of the plant operation.

8.0 Anticipated Impact of the Project

8.1 Water Environment:

The waste water generated from the washing of ore shall be taken to settling tanks of
three Nos of size 1000 cum. The settling shall be done by adding poly electrolyte. The
over flow clear water is re use in the process. Water requirement of the project shall
be 6006 cum per day out of which 5100 cum water shall be recycled through specially
designed equipments. Thus the fresh water requirement shall be 906 cum per day which will
be supplied by MPAKVN.

8.2 Air Environment

There is possibility of emissions during construction phase, which have negative impact on
ambient air quality of surroundings, which will be temporary and reversible in nature and will
be localized.
The measure pollutant from the Iron Ore Beneficiation & Pelletisation plant are particulate
matter, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and Sulphur dioxide (SO2).

But proper mitigative measures like pollution control equipments to control the adverse
impact the company will install suitable pollution control equipments like Electro Static
Precipitator (ESP), Bag filters to maintain the dust concentration as per prescribed Norms.

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8.3 Solid waste

The main solid waste shall be generated during the beneficiation process is discards which is
having 17- 20 % Iron contents. The quantity of discards shall be anticipated approx. 0.48
MTPA. It will be given to nearby bricks manufacturers, this will also used to backfill the
abandoned mine pits of surroundings area.
Storage of Iron Ore, Beneficiated ore shall be protected by garland drains leads to tailing
pond.
8.4 Noise Level
Noise level shall be generated from Crusher & Ball Mil. These units are equipped with acoustic
enclosures to reduce noise level and bring them within Norms.

9.0 Post Project Environmental Monitoring Programme:

Monitoring Schedule

S. No. Description Frequency

1. Ambient Air Quality Quarterly

2 Water Quality Monitoring monthly

3 Noise level Monitoring Quarterly

4 Health Check up once in a year for

employees

10.0 Conclusion
M/s Archana HI-tech Automation System Pvt. Ltd. Will implement proper environment
management plan, this project will encourage other developmental activities in the area,
which will improve employment opportunity and lead to economic growth. The project will
not cause any negative impact due to high standard of environment management system.

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