A coal gangue comprehensive recycling project, owned by Inner Mongolia Yidong Group with a total investment of 800 million yuan ($112.16 million), was officially launched on Aug 20 at Juungar Industrial Park in Juungar Economic Development Zone, Ordos.

The coal gangue comprehensive recycling project breaks ground in Ordos. [Photo provided to investordos.goinnermongolia.com.cn]

The project will include an investment of 130 million yuan in the eastern Yidong mining area to build an intelligent dry separation project for coal mine kaolin and black waste, which would be able to recover 2 million metric tons of coal measure kaolin and 300,000 tons of medium coal annually.

An additional 230 million yuan will be invested in the construction of a solid waste utilization project in Juungar Industrial Park, and 320 million yuan will be invested to build a project with an annual output of 1 million tons of suspended calcination kaolin.

In addition, 120 million yuan will be spent restoring Eastern Energy's dry distillation coal project and the vertical furnace green transformation and energy-saving technical transformation project, which will provide 1 billion cubic meters of gas fuel for the transformation of kaolin project and ceramic production.

After the completion of the project, 2.3 million tons of coal gangue are expected to be digested per year, while the consumption of green electricity is expected to reach 80 million kilowatt-hours, with a predicted output value of 2.2 billion yuan.

The implementation of the project will continue to improve the conversion and utilization of solid waste resources in Juungar Banner, maximize the value of resources, have a far-reaching impact on driving technological breakthroughs in the industry, promoting social and economic development, improving the energy consumption structure and strengthening environmental protection and energy conservation. This will also vigorously promote green and low-carbon development and cluster development in the banner.