Manganese ore
Open cast and underground operations at the Ram Rama mine in Balaghat district, worked by our family across four generations and recognised repeatedly by the Ministry of Mines.
100,000 t/yr · expanding to 250,000 t/yr
Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh · India
From manganese ore to finished alloy.
The Ramnik Group has mined manganese in Central India for four generations. Today that ore feeds our own ferro alloy furnaces, and those furnaces run increasingly on power we generate ourselves.
100+
Years in manganese
34.5 MVA
Installed furnace capacity
5
Ferro alloy furnaces
100,000 t
Mine capacity per annum
What we do
One material, followed all the way down the chain.
We began as miners. Rather than keep selling our ore to alloy producers, we became one — and then built the power to run it.
Ferro alloys
Ferro manganese and silico manganese for the steel industry, produced across five furnaces at Balaghat and supplied to domestic mills and export markets.
50,000–60,000 t/yr · target 150,000 t/yrRenewable power
Solar farms built on worked-out and vacant ground at the mine, succeeding an earlier rice-husk power plant and cutting the cost of a power-hungry process.
5 MW installed · 15–25 MW planned
The legacy
Discovered by accident. Worked ever since.
Manganese was found in Central India by the British while cutting a road through it — the rock they hit was too hard to break, and analysis came back as manganese ore. Survey teams followed, and among the mines they opened was Ram Rama.
Balaghat once held hundreds of working mines. Successive downturns closed most of them. Ours kept going: open cast became underground, underground became vertical shafts, and shafts became mechanised workings — through every change in mining, forest and environmental law along the way.
Products
Alloys that put strength into steel.
Ferro alloys are what a steelmaker adds when the steel has to be stronger. We make them in the grades our customers specify, including low-impurity material for specialised steels.
60/15 to 70/15
The commercial range, crushed, sized and graded to the customer's requirement.
Grades 70, 72 & 75
Produced across our furnace lines for domestic mills and export buyers alike.
Low carbon & low impurity
Low-carbon silico manganese, and low boron, low phosphorus and low sulphur material for specialised steel manufacturing.
Markets
Central India to the world.
For years we served the domestic market alone. As India took on export volumes China stepped away from, we followed our customers abroad.
We export to
- Japan
- South Korea
- Bangladesh
- South East Asia
- UAE
- Oman
- Saudi Arabia
- Iran
- Africa
- Europe
- The Americas
We source ore from
- Our own mines
- South Africa
- Gabon
- Australia
Our long-term agreement with a Japanese company began as an ore purchase and grew into an export relationship. Japan's quality regime shaped how we sample, analyse and grade everything we ship.
Sustainability & community
The area gave us the business. We have tried to pay it back.
Mining is power hungry, and the alloy industry has an environmental footprint. Both are things to manage, not to talk around.
- Vacant and worked-out ground at the mine converted into solar farms, with surplus power exported to the grid.
- Around 20,000 trees planted at the plant, the mine and surrounding villages.
- Pollution control equipment installed across the alloy operations.
- Our own foundation funding village facilities, playgrounds and school renovations.
- The first college in the area built by our family and donated to the government.
Assurance
Certified, audited and repeatedly recognised.
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ISO certified
Covering our processes, quality, and health and safety monitoring.
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BIS certified
Bureau of Indian Standards certification for the material we produce.
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Ministry of Mines
Multiple awards over the years, including five-star ratings — the gold standard in Indian mining.
Enquiries
Talk to us about supply.
Ours is a business-to-business trade built on long relationships. Write to us, or arrange a visit to the mine and the plant.