NALCO

Mr.G.Chattrejee
Geologist

 NALCO mine is located on the Panchpatmali hills of Koraput district in Orissa

 NALCO has a fully mechanized opencast mine of 4.8 million tpa capacity
 Transport of bauxite ore is done through 14.6 km long single flight multicurve
cable belt conveyor of 1800 tph
 NALCO is planning to further increase bauxite mining capacity to 6.3 million
tonnes under Second phase expansion.
 Of the total bauxite production of 14 million tonnes in 2009-10, Panchpatmali
bauxite mine of NALCO contributes about 35 % of the total production with a
production of about 4.5 million tonnes
 Mine is operated in three shifts per day; the average production per shift is
around 6000 - 7000 kg

Sampling:
 The size of the ore is 150 – 200 mm
 Sampling is done manually using scoops
 Samples are taken from the trench using scoops
 Quantity of sample collected during single scoop is around 100 kg
 Coning and quatering is done using riffle dividers

Sample preparation
 Sample preparation is done after coning and quartering
 Sample preparation is done using jaw crusher
 The jaw crusher reduces the size from 150 mm to 10 mm
 The total sample of 100 kg is reduced to 50 kg after crushing
 While disc grinding mill reduces the size from 10mm to 120 mesh
 The initial sample of 100 kg is reduced to 500 grams after final grinding using
disc mill which is taken to the internal laboratory for various tests
Equipments deployed by NALCO

Equipment Quantity Make

Jaw crusher 1 Indian
Riffle divider 2 Indian
Disc grinding mill 1 Indian

Life of equipments:
The average life of sample preparation equipments like jaw crusher, ball mills varies
between 15 - 20 years