Projects Review

摘要

CONSTRUCTION of the 400 million dollars commercial scale Hlsmelt iron ore smelting plant at Kwinana south of Perth a due to begin in the fourth quarter of this year The plant is expected be commissioned in late 2004 and reach full production in the first half of 2006. Rio Tinto will build the plant on the site of the existing Hlsmelt project that has been the focus of the company's 600 million dollars Australian research and development program into revolutionary new direct iron-smelting technology conducted over twenty years. A significant step in the development of new-generation technology for the world steelmaking industry, it will have an annual capacity of up to 800,000 tonnes of high quality pig iron (96 percent iron content).