The Tangshan Ecological and Environment Bureau has announced and started reviews of the environmental impact approvals (EIA) of four iron ore processing projects. These have a total iron ore processing capacity of 3.3 million tonnes/year, Kallanish notes.

Xinqi Mining Company in Qianxi County expects to have the ability to process 600,000 t/y of iron ore and produce 200,000 t/y of iron ore concentrate.

Pengteng Iron Concentrator in Zunhua plans to invest CNY 50 million ($7.76m) to reach processing capacity of 1 million t/y of iron ore and produce 400,000 t/y of coarse concentrate. Annual output will be 720,000t of 66% Fe iron ore fines.

Zunxing Iron Concentrator and Changhongdeli Iron Concentrator in Zunhua plan to invest CNY 10.86m and CNY 36.32m, respectively. Zunxing expects to process 1m t/y of low-grade iron ore into 600,000 t/y of coarse iron concentrate, and Changhongdeli plans to process 700,000t of iron ore and produce 800,000t of coarse iron concentrate annually.