India’s SAIL to record highest ever iron-ore production

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is poised to close the current financial year with the highest-ever production of 19.2-million tonnes, from its captive iron-ore mines, a company official said on Friday. He said the rising iron-ore production was in line with SAIL’s increase in hot metal production. The bulk of the incremental production of the raw material was contributed by a new mine that was opened up during the year at its captive iron-ore block at Taldih, in the eastern Indian province of Odisha.