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Iron Ore Handling Procedures Enhance Export Quality

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  • James E. Everett

    (Department of Information and Marketing, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia)

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Iron ore is a major Australian export into a highly competitive market. Customers feed the iron ore into blast furnaces that are tuned to ore of particular composition. They are therefore displeased if successive shipments differ in their percentage content of any element, such as iron, phosphorus, silicon, aluminum, or calcium. Producers need low variability to compete against other Australian suppliers or other sources, such as South Africa or Brazil. They can plan mine production to average a desired composition over a year, but in mining through an actual ore body, short-term fluctuations in composition are inevitable. I showed through simulation studies that producers can reduce this fluctuation in composition by stacking and recovering the iron ore intelligently at the port prior to shipment. Two Western Australian producers have used these studies to improve measurably the quality of their exported ore.

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  • James E. Everett, 1996. "Iron Ore Handling Procedures Enhance Export Quality," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 26(6), pages 82-94, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:26:y:1996:i:6:p:82-94
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.26.6.82
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    1. Michelle L. Blom & Adrian R. Pearce & Peter J. Stuckey, 2016. "A Decomposition-Based Algorithm for the Scheduling of Open-Pit Networks Over Multiple Time Periods," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 62(10), pages 3059-3084, October.
    2. Everett, J. E., 2001. "Iron ore production scheduling to improve product quality," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 129(2), pages 355-361, March.
    3. Belkina Iryna A. & Kochura Yevhen V., 2013. "Study of dependence of income and profit of the ore mining and processing enterprise on organisation of ore supply," The Problems of Economy, RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS of NAS (KHARKIV, UKRAINE), issue 4, pages 229-236.

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