Iron Ore

Description Vedanta is the largest Iron ore producer-exporter in Asia, with mining and processing facilities at various locations in India. 239.8 million tonnes of Reserves and Resources of ore.

Key locations India Goa Orissa Karnataka

The performance of our Iron Ore business in FY 2009 is set out in the table below.

(in US$ millions, except as stated)			FY 2009	FY 20081
Production volumes (kt)
Saleable ore			15,986	11,469
Pig iron			217	248
Sales volumes (kt)
Iron ore			15,103	11,287
Pig iron			224	244
Revenue			1,070.4	888.9
EBITDA			557.1	585.6
EBITDA Margin			52.1%	65.9%
Operating Profit			348.0	420.0

1 Information is presented for the post acquisition period of 11 months through 31 March 2008 and is not directly comparable with the current period.

Sesa Goa has set itself an ambitious growth vision and has taken several initiativ es towards implementing this plan through an accelerated debottlenecking programme, performance improvement measures and capability building with active support from our other Group companies.