Sino Iron Project

CITIC Pacific Mining's Sino Iron project is a world class, large-scale magnetite iron ore project, the first of its kind in Western Australia.  It is bringing innovative, new mining processes to this country and is the first iron ore project to include large scale downstream processing.

The project will draw on the expertise and skills in magnetite processing from Chinese and other world leaders in this field, providing an excellent opportunity for Australia to benefit from exposure to international skills and processing technology.

The Sino Iron project will be a highly technical, value-adding operation requiring significant processing and transport infrastructure.

The project has access to over two billion tonnes of measured indicated and inferred magnetite ore and, when operational, will be one of the world’s largest mines. It will process produce 27.6 million tonnes per annum of a mix of pellets and concentrate.

The mine’s end product – magnetite, in concentrate and pellets – is an important commodity as it is one of the raw materials used to make steel. In the conversion process, significantly less carbon dioxide is produced than with other materials, making magnetite increasingly desirable in this era of environmental awareness.