SeqiOlivine improves the sintering and
pelletizing performance of iron ore
الیوین بهبود دهنده عملکرد سینترینگ سنگ آهن
ABSTRACT
Minelco, the industrial minerals company, started a couple of years back to investigate the possibility of utilizing an olivine-rich dunite rock at Greenland as a source of olivine to different industrial applications. The usage of olivine in industrial applications is predominantly as a slag conditioner and fluxing agent into different metallurgical processes and products, where addition to the blast furnace process, to the sintering of iron ore and iron ore pelletizing are the main areas. In this investigation the usefulness of the olivine mined at Greenland for sinter - and pellet production was studied. The chemical analysis of the olivine from Greenland shows an olivine mineral with high fosterite content. Sintering behaviour and sinter properties shows that the Greenland olivine is a high-rated olivine additive.