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Essar Steel urged to seek consent for developing iron ore block

Essar Steel has bagged the Ghoraburhani-Sagasahi block in the first iron ore auctions in Odisha

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Jayajit Dash Bhubaneswar
The Odisha State Pollution Control Board has asked Essar Steel to apply for consent to develop its iron ore block in the state. Essar Steel has bagged the Ghoraburhani-Sagasahi block in the first ever iron ore auctions held in Odisha after outbidding contenders like Tata Steel, Jindal Steel & Power (JSPL) and Bhushan Steel. The block has 100 million tonne of high grade iron ore deposits and is supposed to feed Essar Steel's flagship operations at Hazira, Gujarat).

Essar Steel has proposed a production capacity of 7.16 million tonne per annum (mtpa) run of the mine product from the iron ore

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