Gladiator Resources Limited is an Australian mining company that specializes in the exploitation of gold and nickel and allied with US Orosur Mining Inc for Zapucay Project.
Zapucay Project in south central department of Rivera aims to produce pig iron for the foreign market, at a cost 50% less than that of Brazil. Estimates of mine are producing 400,000 tonnes of pig iron annually, generating between AUD 120 and AUD 160 million in exports and about 300 jobs.
Zapucay Project consists of a mine (iron ore mining and processing in a concentration of iron), a pig iron plant and several modules of charcoal production. As for the plant will be composed of a coal plant, a sinter, blast furnace and a small power plant.
In the mine is crushed, milled and separated with magnetic ore separator. Moves to the sinter plant, the process of agglomeration of fine iron to produce a suitable material for the blast furnace, sinter. Finally, we reach the blast furnace produces pig iron foundry. Parallel is made based on small diameter logs extracted from the thinning of plantations nearby, charcoal, at a cost of 20% of traditional methods for coal.
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