KIOCL
About Company
KIOCL Limited, formerly Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Steel, Government of India with its head office and administrative activities in Bangalore.[3] It has a pelletisation plant in Mangalore and had an iron ore mine in Kudremukh (Chikkamagaluru district). It is under the ownership of Ministry of Steel , Government of India. The Kudremukh mine, one of the largest iron ore mines in the world, was closed in 2006.
The captive mining took place at Kudremukh on the Western Ghats range. The mined ore was transported 110 km through slurry pipelines running through the districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada up to the pelletisation plant in Panambur,[3] adjacent to the premises of the New Mangalore Port.