NMDC LIMITED - Profile

Incorporated in 1958 as a Government of India, it is a fully owned public enterprise. NMDC

is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. Since
inception involved in the exploration of wide range of minerals including iron ore, copper,
rock phosphate, lime stone, dolomite, gypsum, bentonite, magnesite, diamond, tin, tungsten,
graphite, beach sands etc.

It is India's single largest iron ore producer and exporter, presently producing about 30
million tons of iron ore from 3 fully mechanized mines which are awarded ISO 9001-2000
certification. NMDC has the only mechanized diamond mine in the country with a capacity
of 1.00 lakh carats / annum at Panna ( Madhya Pradesh State ).

NMDC has a strong back up of an ISO 9001 certified R&D Centre, which has been declared
as the "Centre of Excellence" in the field of mineral processing by the Expert Group of
UNIDO.

NMDC has made valuable and substantial contribution to the National efforts in the mineral
sector during the last five decades and has been accorded the status of schedule-A Public
Sector Company. In recognition to the Company's growing status and consistent excellent
performance, the Company has been categorized by the Department of Public Enterprises as
"NAVRATNA" Public Sector Enterprise in 2008.

The story of NMDC is woven around the dreamy hills and the deep jungle landof Bastar in
Chhattisgarh, known as Dandakaranya from the epic periods. The Bailadila iron ore range -
"The hump of an ox" - in the local dialect, was remote, inaccessible and replete with wild life.
The range contains 1200 million tonnes of high grade iron ore distributed in 14 deposits. The
entire area was brought to the mainstream of civilization by the spectacular effort of NMDC
by opening-up of mines. Today, Bailadila is a name to reckon with in the world iron ore
market because of its super high grade iron ore. Bailadila complex possesses the world's best
grade of hard lumpy ore having +66% iron content, with negligible deleterious material and
the best physical and metallurgical properties needed for steel making.

In the past, NMDC had developed many mines like Kiriburu, Meghataburu iron ore mines
in Bihar , Khetri Copper deposit in Rajasthan, Kudremukh Iron Ore Mine in Karnataka,
Phosphate deposit in Mussorie, some of which were later handed over to other companies in
public sector and others became independent companies.

NMDC is presently producing about 22 million tonnes of iron ore from its Bailadila sector
mines and 7 million tonnes from Donimalai sector mines.

Because of its excellent chemical and metallurgical properties, the calibrated ore from
Bailadila deposits has substituted the iron ore pellets in sponge iron making and hence
became an important raw material for three major gas-based sponge iron steel producers like
Essar Steel, Ispat industries and Vikram Ispat. In addition to these three, the entire
requirement of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is also being met from Bailadila.

The demand for steel will continue to grow in the years to come and this in turn would call
for increased demand for iron ore. NMDC is gearing itself to meet the expected increase in
demand by enhancing production capabilities of existing mines and opening up new mines -
Deposit -11B in Bailadila sector and Kumaraswamy in Donimalai sector. The production
capability would increase to around 50 million tonnes per year by 2014-15.

Besides iron ore, NMDC also plans to go for other minerals like Coal, Diamond, gold etc for
which NMDC is looking forward for leases / buy properties from foreign countries directly /
under Special Purpose Vehicle / point Ventures.

NMDC is taking up diversification activities through its intensive R&D efforts for production
of High-Tech and High Value added products from Blue Dust like Carbon free sponge iron
powder, Nano crystalline powder. NMDC has always shown great concern for environment
protection. At all its projects care is taken in this regard by tree plantation, making tailing
dams/check dams at different places. NMDC is also investing in development of renewable
energy resources as an environment friendly investment. A Wind mill project (10.5MW
capacity) has been completed & commissioned at Karnataka.
 Products and Services

CHEMICAL & PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS - IRON ORE -Bailadila Sector

DR Calibrated Lump Ore (FOR –Bacheli)

Chemical:
Fe 67.0%
Silica + Alumina 2.6% max
Sulphur 0.01% max
Phosphorus 0.05% max
Size: 10-40 mm
+ 40 mm 5% max
-10mm 7.5% max

Baila Lump (FOR/FOT –Kirandul)

Chemical:
Fe 65.5%
Silica + Alumina 4.0% max
Sulphur 0.01% max
Phosphorus 0.05% max
Size: 6-40 mm
+ 40 mm 5% max
-6mm 15% max

Baila ROM (FOR –Kirandul/Bacheli)

Chemical:
Fe 65.50%
Silica 2.25% max
Alumina 2.25% max
Silica + Alumina 4.0% max
Sulphur 0.04% max
Phosphorus 0.075% max
Size: 10-150mm
+ 150 mm 2.5% max
-10mm 15.0% max
 Baila Fines (FOR–Kirandul/Bacheli)

Chemical:
Fe 64.0%
Silica 3.0% max
Alumina 3.0% max
Silica + Alumina 6.0% max
Sulphur 0.04% max
Phosphorus 0.075%max
Size: -10mm
+ 10 mm 5% max

Donimalai Sector

Doni Lump (FOR-RNJP)

Chemical:
Fe 65.0%
Silica + Alumina 5.5% max
Sulphur 0.05% max
Phosphorus 0.08% max
Size: 6-30 mm
+ 30 mm 5% max
-6mm 15% max

Doni Fines (FOR-RNJP)

Chemical:
Fe 64.0%
Silica + Alumina 6.0% max
Sulphur 0.05% max
Phosphorus 0.08% max
Size: 10—150mic
+ 10 mm 5% max
-150mic 25% max
Mining and Mineral development in the present age requires a strong base of
suitable research and development effort. Realising this, way back in 1970, a
nucleus R&D cell was created in NMDC. The cell has now grown into a highly
sophisticated R&D centre at Hyderabad which is one of the best equipped
laboratories of its kind capable of taking up any assignment in the field of ore
beneficiation and mineral processing. The R&D centre has earned a rare
distinction of competence of undertaking technology development mission
related to mineral processing, flow sheet development, minerological studies and
project development. R&D centre of NMDC has been declared as the "Centre of
Excellence" in the field of Mineral Processing by the Expert Group Meeting of
UNIDO consisting of delegates from 15 countries. The centre is extending
technology support to NMDC’s existing mines, other organisations in India and
abroad. The centre has been awarded ISO 9001 certification in October, 1998.

R&D centre undertook extensive studies on Kimberlite waste found in Panna

Diamond Mining Project and found the possibilities of utilising this waste for
different applications, falling into the following three categories:

 Usage without any beneficiation for the following areas:

 As soil conditioner in acidic soils (This has been confirmed by various
Agricultural Research Institutes at New Delhi, Ambikapur, Jagadalpur,
Raipur, Orissa, APAU etc.)
 Cement brick making. (approved by the National Council for Cement and
Building Materials, Hyderabad).
 Mosaic tiles.

 Glazing material for ceramic tiles.

 Body material for ceramic tiles.
 As a flux material feed in place of dolomite.
 After purifying it by chemical process, it can be used for producing value-
added products, such as:

1. As an adsorbent for removal of fluride from potable water high in fluride

(5 ppm to 1 ppm) by making filter candles with processed kimberlite
waste material. (This has been patented by NMDC).
2. Recovery of magnesium from kimberlite waste either as Epsom salt or as
causitic magnesia, which can find application in the following fields of
activity:
o Pulp and paper industries.
o Animal feed
o Resin filler
o Water treatment.
o Flame retardant Mg (OH)2
o Electric insulation.

This has been patented by NMDC.

 Recovery of silica as fluffy silica or precipitated silica, which can find

application in the following fields of activity:
 Rubber industries
 Fertilizer
 As a filler material in plastics
 Cosmetics
 Paper
This has been patented by NMDC.

In order to exploit the vast resources of kimberlite, NMDC is on the look out for a
suitable partners for taking up any of the above projects for utilisation of the
non-renewable natural resources for the benefit of the nation.

Technical Capabilities

Minerology

 Mineral Identification
 Modal Analysis
 Mineral Textures and Phases
 Liberation of Minerals

Batch Ore Dressing

 Comminution
 Granulometry
 Classification
 Gravity Separation
 Magnetic Separation
 Electrostatic Separation
 Froth Flotation

Mineral Beneficiation Pilot Plant

 Receipt and Storage of Samples

 Scalping & Size Reduction
 Grinding
 Scrubbing and Screening
 Gravity Separation
 Magnetic Separation
 Multi stage Froth Flotation
 Ferric oxide Demonstration

Agglomeration

 Pelletising, Sintering and Briquetting

 Evaluation of Physical, Chemical & Metallurgical Properties of iron ore
lumps,sinters and pellets

Pyro & Hydro Metallurgy

 Direct Reduction
 Roasting, Calcination & Sintering
 Leaching
 Solvent Extraction
 Filtration

Bulk Solids Flowability

 Evaluation of Flow characteristics of bulk solids and Rheological Properties

 of Solid-Liquid Slurries
 Design of Systems for bulk handling of solids and Slurry transportation

New Product Development

 Development of various types of soft ferrite powder

 Characterization of physical, electrical and magnetic properties
 Pilot scale production of soft ferrite powder Development of new materials

Analytical Chemistry

 Classical Methods of Analysis

 Instrumental Methods of Analysis
 Development and standardisation of new analytical procedures

Electronic Data Processing

 Management Information
 Technical Support
 Database
 Report Preparation

Our Esteemed Clients

INDIAN

 Chowgule & Company Limited

 Engineers India Limited
 Essar Gujarat Limited
 Fomento
 Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited
 Hindustan Zinc Limited
 Manganese Ore India Limited
 Minerals & Metals Trading Corporation Limited
 Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited
 National Thermal Power Corporation Limited
 Neyveli Lignite Corporation
 Paramount Sinters Pvt. Limited
 Pennar Steel Limited
 Pyrites, Phosphates & Chemicals Ltd.
 KIOC
 GOA
 Sathavahana Ispat Limited
 Sponge Iron India Limited
 Steel Authority of India Limited and it's Subsidiaries
 Salem Steel Plant
 Tata Metaliks Limited
 Tata Iron & Steel Co.
 Uttar Pradesh State Mineral Development Corporation Limited
 Utkal Alumimium Company Limited
 VS Dempo & Company Limited
 Salgaccar & Pore Ltd.
 Organisation Structure
The basic organisation structure of NMDC comprises of Board of Directors as following:-

Chairman-cum-Managing Director

1. Functional Directors : They are mainly associated with the working group
carrying out production activities, either directly or indirectly. Their main
functions include supervision and guiding.
1.1 Director (Commercial)- deals with commercial aspects, which includes
advertising policies, arranging funds for projects etc.
1.2 Director (Production):- deals with production aspects to increase
company’s outcome and revenue.
1.3 Director (Technical):- deals with technical aspects.
1.4 Director (Finance):- deals with financial aspects, which includes budgeting
and optimal resource management.
1.5 Director (Personal):- deals with personal aspects, HR management and
relationship with others.

2. Government Directors :- They are nominated by the government (as NMDC is

a public sector undertaking) to take care of governments’ interest in the
company’s policy.
2.1 Director
2.2 Director

3. Independent Directors:- Independent Directors come under the category of

the Non- Executive Directors. The Companies Act however, does not define
the term. Independent Directors means directors who apart from receiving the
remuneration, do not have any other material or pecuniary interest in the
company.
3.1 Directors
3.2 Directors
3.3 Directors
3.4 Directors
3.5 Directors
3.6 Directors
3.7 Directors

4. Chief Vigilance Officers:- The Chief Vigilance Officers are extended hands of
the CVC. The Chief Vigilance Officers are considerably higher level officers
who are appointed in each and every Department/Organisation to assist the
Head of the Department/Organisation in all vigilance matters. Even though
 detection and punishment of corruption and other malpractices are certainly
important, what is more important is taking preventive measures instead of
hunting for the guilty in the post corruption stage. Therefore, the role and
functions of CVOs has been broadly divided in to two parts, which are (I)
Preventive and (II) Punitive.

5. Company Secretary and ED (L&CC) :- Is a vital link between the company and its
Board of Directors, shareholders, government and regulatory authorities. Besides, he must also
ensure that Board procedures are both followed and regularly reviewed and provides guidance
to Chairman and the Directors on their responsibilities under various laws. .

Besides this, the management level comprises of Senior Managers of various units/branches
as shown in the table below:-

Senior Management Branch / Unit

General Manager Head Office
General Manager Donimalai
General Manager Bachelil
General Manager Arki
General Manager (Engg) Head Office
General Manager (Proj & Elect) Head Office
General Manager - 11B Kirandul Complex
General Manager (PC) Head Office
Project Manager Panna

Social Responsibilities
To provide better Infrastructure for employees and their families, striving for better living
conditions for employees by providing townships, hospitals, schools etc. It is the
responsibility of the company to provide higher quality products in the market. The
company is responsible for adhering to the latest eco friendly standards. Spreading
awareness regarding social issues like education, health, rainwater harvesting .Setting up
charitable trusts .Mining usually strips the land of cultivable soil and causes deforestation
on a large scale , hence it is the responsibility of the company to maintain the ecological
balance in the area.

Suggestions / Conclusions
1. Functional Director should be appointed at different important branches to
manage the work more efficiently and allow for closer supervision and easy
 and faster communication. This will also facilitate horizontal communication
between distant branches.
2. Associating with NGOs to organise awareness camps etc, to have bigger
impact through these activities.
3. Inspiring villages towards self-help groups and inculcating self-confidence in
themselves.