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Gallery

The operation, as it looks.

The mine at Ramrama, the works at Sarandi, the solar farm on ground that has already been mined, and the awards the operation has been given. Every photograph here was taken on site.

The mine

Ramrama.

A haul road cut through the open cast workings at the Ramrama mine — The haul road through the open cast workings

The steel headgear tower over the shaft at Ramrama, silhouetted against the sun — Headgear over the shaft

A team in helmets and high-visibility jackets in an underground working, lit by a hand torch — Underground

A cut rock face in the workings, with water standing at its foot — A worked face, and standing water

Manganese ore stacked in the open, sorted by grade — Ore stacked by grade

Crushed and sized manganese ore in graded stacks — Crushing, sizing and grade stacks

A team in helmets and high-visibility jackets at the foot of the headgear — At the shaft

The works

Sarandi.

The approach to the works at Sarandi: boundary wall and main gate, with the plant on the ridge behind — The works from the main gate

The third unit furnace building: a long clad shed on steel columns with three stacks — Unit three, added in 2024

Manganese ore stockpiled in the yard in front of the furnace shed, with the tap glow showing between the columns — Ore in the yard, the furnace floor behind

The works at dusk: the charging conveyor climbing to the furnace building, stacks smoking, the tap glow running the length of the bays — The whole works, running

Molten alloy tapped from the furnaces at dusk, seen through the open side of the furnace building — Tapping, at dusk

Three furnace bays running, molten alloy streaming from each — Three bays running

Molten alloy running white from the tap hole down a sand runner into the casting bed — Out of the tap hole, into the casting bed

Structural steelwork inside the plant, with workers at the base — Inside the plant

An operator at the process control panel — Process control

The pollution control plant and its stack at the ferro alloys works — Pollution control plant

Power & environment

Ground used twice.

Rows of solar panels laid out on worked-out mine ground — Solar on worked-out ground

Rows of young saplings planted close together on worked ground running down to a water course — Dense plantation, Balaghat

Recognition

Judged from outside.

A five-star rating from the Indian Bureau of Mines, a Madhya Pradesh state environment award, mine safety awards, and recognition from the state chamber of commerce.

Prahlad Joshi, Union Minister of Mines, presenting the five-star rating to Nischal Trivedi and Harsh Trivedi — The five-star rating presented — Conclave on Mines and Minerals, New Delhi

The five-star trophy: a glass star engraved Ministry of Mines, Sustainable Development, on a plaque naming the Ramrama manganese mine — Five-star rating, Ramrama mine, 2017–18

The framed Madhya Pradesh environment award citation for 2016 to 17 — Madhya Pradesh environment award, 2016–17

Receiving an award on stage at Mine Safety Week 2019 — Mine Safety Week 2019 — Directorate of Mines Safety, Nagpur

A metal trophy engraved FMPCCI Outstanding Achievement Awards 2014 — Outstanding Achievement Award, 2014 — FMPCCI

Site visits

Better seen in person.

Buyers are welcome at the mine and the plant. Tell us roughly when, and we will arrange access and someone to walk you through the operation.

Arrange a visit Ferro alloys