ALIAGA PROJECT, TURKEY

The Aliaga Recycling Plant (ARP) will comprise a rotary hearth furnace and a submerged arc melter. It is planned to treat 200,000 tonnes per year of electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) containing an average grade of 24% zinc. The plant will produce a concentrate containing zinc and lead, together with iron in the form of direct reduced iron which will be upgraded into pig iron in the melter.

ZincOx has purchased 4.2 hectares of land in the Heavy Industrial Zone at Aliaga, located 60 km north of Izmir on the western coast of Turkey. Turkey is a large recycler of steel, producing well over 200,000 tonnes per year of EAFD. Within the Industrial Zone there are five steel mills which together produce over 100,000 tonnes per annum EAFD. Other EAFD will be brought to site from other steel mills in Turkey. During the course of 2007 full environmental approval from the Turkish authorities was obtained for the proposed plant. The Industrial Zone is well located with respect to transportation by sea, road and rail. Gas and electricity are readily available

In November 2007 an additional plot was purchased adjacent to the initial plant site. This site will be used as an enclosed stockpile and blending area and for EAFD storage prior to the completion of the main plant.

ARP will be designed to produce annually 47,000 tonnes of zinc contained in a crude zinc oxide concentrate, 46,000 tonnes of pig iron and 44,000 tonnes of slag. ZincOx plans that the zinc concentrate will be transported to BRZ for further processing, the pig iron will be sold back to the steel mills in Turkey from where the EAFD originated and the inert slag can be sold to the construction industry.

View of Aliaga Industrial Zone and Steel Mills

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