Common Contracts

Performance Agreement Concerning

Performance Agreement • May 25th, 2016

• Contract Type
  Performance Agreement
• Filed
  May 25th, 2016

WHEREAS the production of iron ore pellets involves the mining of iron ore from open pits, crushing and concentrating the ore into a concentrate, and finally pelletizing. In the pelletizing process, iron ore concentrate is rolled into balls (pellets) and hardened through thermal treatment in an induration furnace. The induration furnace is the primary source of emissions from this sector of sulfur dioxide (SO2), inhalable particles with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less (PM2.5), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx);