Australia's Roy Hill is looking to increase its iron ore capacity by another 5 million tonnes per year, which would allow it to produce the steelmaking raw material at a rate of 60 million tpy.
This ramp-up is set to commence by the end of 2019, its market technical manager for China, Wang Yongming, told delegates at an industry conference in Xiamen, Fujian province last Friday November 16.A source at the company told Fastmarkets MB that the ramp-up would be achieved via a tailings recovery project at its base of operations in Western...