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IRON ORE  (FeO)  (FeO)
Project JV PANDS  MATSA LAOS CO.,LTD.  YEAR 2008
General Information
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in colour from dark grey to rusty red. The iron itself is usually found in the form of magnetite (Fe3O4), hematite (Fe2O3), limonite or siderite. Hematite is also known as "natural ore". The name refers to the early years of mining, when certain hematite ores contained 66% iron and could be fed directly into iron making blast furnaces. Iron ore is the raw material used to make pig iron, which is one of the main raw materials to make steel. 98% of the mined iron ore is used to make steel.

Applications

In the World, almost all of the iron ore that is mined is used for making steel. Raw iron by itself is not as strong and hard as needed for construction and other purposes. So, the raw iron is alloyed with a variety of elements (such as tungsten, manganese, nickel, vanadium, chromium) to strengthen and harden it, making useful steel for construction, automobiles, and other forms of transportation such as trucks, trains and train tracks.

While the other uses for iron ore and iron are only a very small amount of the consumption, they provide excellent examples of the ingenuity and the multitude of uses that man can create from our natural resources.

Powdered iron: used in metallurgy products, magnets, high-frequency cores, auto parts, catalyst. Radioactive iron (iron 59): in medicine, tracer element in biochemical and metallurgical research. Iron blue: in paints, printing inks, plastics, cosmetics (eye shadow), artist colors, laundry blue, paper dyeing, fertilizer ingredient, baked enamel finishes for autos and appliances, industrial finishes. Black iron oxide: as pigment, in polishing compounds, metallurgy, medicine, magnetic inks, in ferrites for electronics industry.

Mining and Productions

Pands Group has started to explore the mineral source in Laos since 2002, with an emphasis on ores for the upstream industry, such as coal, zinc, copper, barite, and iron. In 2008, we are officially granted the permission from the Main Political Division of the Army, Ministry of Defense, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, to explore the military premise of 414 km2, located in Chaisomboon, Vientiane, 250 km from Nongkai Province’s border.

It is reported that the area possesses many highly valued minerals, principally 62% of magnetite and hematite iron ores. These mines can be invested commercially, with at least 20,000,000 metric tons of iron in reserve. It is expected that, by 2008, Pands Group under the name of Pha Lek Mining Co., Ltd. will have been granted the permission from Laos’ government to invest in the mining industry. And the company will be ready to export ores to Thailand and China in 2009.

	MINE LOCATION ORE RESERVES (TONS) Year 2008 PRODUCTION   .
	Laos 60,000,000 Year 2009 SPECIFICATION CHEMICAL ANALYSIS SIZE Iron (Fe) 62.00 % Basis 0 - 10 MM Phosphorus (P) 0.10 % Max 10 - 40 MM Sulphur (S) 0.05 % Max All your requirement Silica (SiO2) 3.5 % Max   Alumina (Al2O3) 3.5 % Max   Moisture 8.0 % Max

Specifications/Packaging
Ore Concentrade will transfer to local factories and export

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