A New DBM plant will be set in India

Feb. 9, 2010
Indian mining company National Mineral Development Company (NMDC) Ltd has revealed that it intends to set up a 100 tpd dead burned magnesia (DBM) plant in the Jammu and Kashmir region, India.
NMDC has a 74% stake in joint-venture with JKMDC for a magnesite mine near the village of Panthal, Jammu, and plans to set up 36,500 tpa DBM at Panthal, in the north of the country. The deposit feeding the plant has reserves of 4.05m. tonnes magnesite.
"We expect to start production in 2012," the company said. The magnesite from this deposit will be used to produce DBM for the domestic refractory market.
India contains large resources of magnesite from the states of Jammu, Karnataka, Kashmir and Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Magnesite Ltd (Tanmag) being one of India's largest magnesite producers with a crude output of up to 100,000 tpa from the Salem region of Tamil Nadu.
NMDC is also looking to bid for a new phosphate operation in Sra Ouertane, in the north-west of Tunisia.