Amid Rising Construction Material Prices, MG Factory Tests Use of Mining Waste

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 30/11/2020 at 11:05

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Factory in MG, Located at the Pico Mine, Inaugurated on Tuesday, the 17th, is a Pilot Plant for Products for Civil Construction, Based on the Magnetic Concentration of Low-Grade Iron Ore, Without Using Water.

After the tests, it is assumed that the unit installed at the mine in MG will prevent about 30 thousand tons of mineral waste from being dumped into dams or piles, transforming them into almost 4 million products for the civil construction sector, including concrete blocks, fencing, pipes, and similar items.

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Amid Rising Construction Material Prices, MG Factory Tests Use of Mining Waste

Factory in MG, Located at the Pico Mine, Inaugurated on Tuesday, the 17th, is a Pilot Plant for Products for Civil Construction, Based on the Magnetic Concentration of Low-Grade Iron Ore, Without Using Water.

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Amid Rising Construction Material Prices, MG Factory Tests Use of Mining Waste

Factory in MG, Located at the Pico Mine, Inaugurated on Tuesday, the 17th, is a Pilot Plant for Products for Civil Construction, Based on the Magnetic Concentration of Low-Grade Iron Ore, Without Using Water.

Read Also

Vale Takes First Initiative in Reusing Mineral Waste in Civil Construction

Vale Invests Over R$ 25 Million in Research at the MG Factory

A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has ceased to be a climatic phenomenon and has become a biological system that feeds on itself, with 8,000 kilometers in length, 37 million tons of algae, and scientists confirm that it is now permanent.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

Brazil will harvest a record crop of up to 357 million tons of grains, but it does not have the capacity to store a large part of it. The storage deficit has reached the highest level in history and is equivalent to almost the entire production of Argentina.

Engineers had to pour concrete mixed with tons of ice throughout entire nights in the Dubai desert to erect the Burj Khalifa; any carelessness could clog the pipes half a mile high.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.

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About 150 workers are driving, one by one, 4,585 BYD electric cars off a 220-meter ship at the Port of Itajaí. The 48-hour mega-operation is the largest shipment from the Chinese automaker in Santa Catarina this year.

Iceland is going to lower a drill five kilometers to reach rock at 400 degrees and try to extract clean energy on a scale that a common well cannot achieve.

At the bottom of the South Pole ice, the IceCube observatory drilled more than a kilometer and a half of ice to hunt ghost particles and test whether gravity obeys the rules of quantum physics.