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Iron Ore Mine
Bayan Obo West Mine
7th-largest iron ore mine in China of 41 · top 19% worldwide (#68 of 372)
- Operator
- Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel Union Co Ltd
- Owner
- Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union Co., Ltd.
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 10 Mt/yr
- Mineral
- iron ore
- Output
- ~10 Mtpa
- Commissioned
- 1957
Comparable iron ore mines · China · 41 ranked
- #1Ansteel Hujiamiaozi Mine
- #5Jingtieshan Mine
- #6TISCO Yuanjiacun Mine
- #7Bayan Obo West Mine
- #8Bensteel Nanfen Mine
- #9Makeng Mine
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Mintal Group DRI plant1.6 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Inner Mongolia Baotou New energy hydrogen production wind farm3.9 km · Power Plant · 3.5 GW · wind
- Inner Mongolia Baotou New energy hydrogen production wind farm3.9 km · Power Plant · 1.5 GW · wind
- Inner Mongolia Baotou Tongwei Green Materials wind farm4.5 km · Power Plant · 300 MW · wind
- Bayan Obo Main Mine7.4 km · Iron Ore Mine
- Inner Mongolia Gas Pipeline Network — Guyang-Bayan Obo (Baiyun Ebo) Gas Pipeline8.8 km · Pipeline
- Bayan Obo East Mine9.3 km · Iron Ore Mine
- Bayan Obo North Iron Mine18 km · Iron Ore Mine
- Baotou Jidong Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant21 km · Cement Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Iron Ore Mines Tracker (CC BY 4.0)